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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 329 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Puritans hounded the Baptists out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in America, and their influence matches their numbers. Yet the historical legacy, and the inherently fractured nature of their faith, makes Baptists ever wary of threats from within as well as without. Kidd and Hankins, both practicing Baptists, weave the threads of Baptist history alongside those of American...
83) The Rastafarians
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
Twentieth anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Provides an important contribution to the sociology of religion and to our knowledge of the variety of religious expressions that have grown up during the West African Diaspora in the Western Hemisphere.
Author
Series
Carnegie Institution of Washington publication volume no. 137
Publisher
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Pub. Date
1910.
Physical Desc
vii, 254 pages ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH 1383
Publisher
MacMillan
Pub. Date
1922.
Edition
Rancocas edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 643 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facisms. ; 23 cm
Language
English
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