"A superb study of Primitive Baptist belief and practice in a
specific region of the South. Expands our knowledge of an often
neglected group."--Bill Leonard, Dean, School of Divinity, Wake
Forest University Between 1819 and 1848, Primitive Baptists emerged
as a distinct, dominant religious group in the area of the deepest
South known as the Wiregrass country. John Crowley, a historian and
former Primitive minister, chronicles their origins and expansion
into South Georgia and Florida, documenting one of the strongest
aspects of the inner life of the local piney-woods culture. Crowley
begins by examining Old Baptist worship and discipline and then
addressing Primitive Baptist reaction to the Civil War,
Reconstruction, Populism, Progressivism, the Depression, and
finally the ferment of the 1960s and present decline of the
denomination. Intensely conservative, with a strong belief in
predestination, Old Baptists opposed modernizing trends sweeping
their denomination in the early 19th century. Crowley describes
their separation from Southern Baptists and the many internal
schisms on issues such as the saving role of the gospel, the Two
Seed Doctrine, and absolute as opposed to limited predestination.
Going beyond doctrine, he discusses contention among Old Baptists
over music, divorce, membership in secret societies, sacraments
administered by heretics, and rituals such as the washing of feet.
Writing with insight and sensitivity, he navigates the history of
this denomination through the 20th century and the emergence of at
least twenty mutually exclusive factions of Primitive Baptists in
this specific region of the Deep South. John G. Crowley is
associate professor of history at Valdosta State University.
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