Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America

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Notes Introduction: A New People of God 1. John Taylor’s two-year ordeal concluded with his baptism in May 1772.Young, Baptists on the American Frontier, 94–95, 98, 102. 2. Baptist history has generated numerous works, primarily on New England and the South. On New England, see C. C. Goen, Revivalism and Separatism in New England, 1740–1800: Strict Congregationalists and Separate Baptists in the Great Awakening (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1962); William Gerald McLoughlin, New England Dissent, 1630–1833: The Baptists and the Separation of Church and State, 2 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971); McLoughlin, Soul Liberty: The Baptists’ Struggle in New England, 1630–1833 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1991); Steven Marini, Radical Sects in Revolutionary New England (Cambridge , Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982); Harry Stout, The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986); Carla Gardina Pestana, Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts (Oxford: Cambridge University Press, 1991); Daniel Jones, The Economic and Social Transformation of Rural Rhode Island, 1780–1850 (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992); Susan Juster, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994). On the South, see Donald G. Matthews, Religion in the Old South (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970); Leah Townsend, South Carolina Baptists, 1670–1805 (Baltimore: General Publication, 1978); Anne Loveland, Southern Evangelicals and the Social Order, 1800–1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980); Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982); Richard Beeman, The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenberg County, Virginia, 1746–1832 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984); Robert Calhoon, Evangelicals and Conservatives in the Early South, 1740–1861 (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1988); Albert H. Tillson, Jr., Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture on the Virginia Frontier, 1740–1789 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991); Randy Sparks, On Jordan’s Stormy Banks: Evangelicalism in Mississippi, 1773–1876 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994); Christine Leigh Heyrman, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (New York: Knopf, 1997); Gregory A. Wills, Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1758–1900 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997); Jewel Spangler , Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008). On evangelicalism, see Mark A. Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and Wesley (Nottingham: IVP, 2004); Mark A. Noll, David W. Bebbington, and George R. Rawlyk, eds., Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies of Popular Protestantism in North America, the British Isles, and Beyond, 1700–1900 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994); Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989); John B. Boles,“Evangelical Protestantism in the Old South: From Religious Dissent to Cultural Dominance,” in Charles Reagan Wilson, ed., Religion in the South (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1985); Leonard I. Sweet, ed., The Evangelical Tradition in America (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1984). 3. The most recent book length work on Baptists in the Delaware Valley is Norman Maring, Baptists in New Jersey: A Study in Transition (Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson Press, 1964). Jon Butler’s Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order: The English Churches of the Delaware Valley, 1680–1730, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 68, Part 2 (Philadelphia: APS, 1978), is based on his dissertation, “The Christian Experience in the Delaware Valley: The English Churches on the Eve of the Great Awakening” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota , 1972). Also see David Spencer, The Early Baptists in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: William Sycklemoore, 1877); Richard Cook, The Early and Later Delaware Baptists (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1880); Henry C. Vedder, A History of the Baptists in the Middle States (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1898); William W. Keen, 1698, The Bicentennial Celebration of the Founding of the First Baptist Church of the City of Philadelphia, 1898 (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1899); Charles H. Brooks, Official History of the First African Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1922); Robert G. Torbet, A Social History of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, 1707–1840 (Philadelphia: Westbrook , 1944). 4. Quote from Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1989), 139. On bodies and theory, see Peter Stallybrass, “Patriarchal Territories: The Body Enclosed,” in...