“Courts of Conscience”: Local Law, the Baptists, and Church Schism in Kentucky, 1780-1840
This article examines how religious controversy affected antebellum Kentucky's legal culture and helped construct the relationship between church and state. It incorporates legal theory to broaden conceptions of law and argues that Baptist churches served as important legal sites for their comm...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2015]
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Church history
Year: 2015, Volume: 84, Issue: 1, Pages: 124-158 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kentucky
/ Baptists
/ State
/ Law
/ History 1780-1840
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBQ North America KDG Free church |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |