{"product_id":"forging-a-christian-order-south-carolina-baptists-race-and-slavery-1696-1860-hardcover-1","title":"Forging a Christian Order: South Carolina Baptists, Race, and Slavery, 1696-1860 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKimberly Kellison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA significant contribution to the historiography of religion in the U.S. south, \u003ci\u003eForging a \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Order\u003c\/i\u003e challenges and complicates the standard view that eighteenth-century evangelicals exerted both religious and social challenges to the traditional mainstream order, not maturing into middle-class denominations until the nineteenth century. Instead, Kimberly R. Kellison argues, eighteenth-century White Baptists in South Carolina used the Bible to fashion a Christian model of slavery that recognized the humanity of enslaved people while accentuating contrived racial differences. Over time \u003cbr\u003e this model evolved from a Christian practice of slavery to one that expounded on slavery as morally right. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Elites who began the Baptist church in late-1600s Charleston closely valued hierarchy. It is not surprising, then, that from its formation the church advanced a Christian model of slavery. The American Revolution spurred the associational growth of the denomination, reinforcing the rigid order of the authoritative master and subservient enslaved person, given that the theme of liberty for all threatened slaveholders' way of life. In lowcountry South Carolina in the 1790s, where a White minority population lived in constant anxiety over control of the bodies of enslaved men and women, news of revolt in St. Domingue (Haiti) led to heightened fears of Black violence. Fearful of being associated with antislavery evangelicals and, in turn, of being labeled as an enemy of the planter and urban elite, White ministers orchestrated a major transformation in the Baptist construction of paternalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eForging a Christian Order\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive examination of the Baptist movement in South Carolina from its founding to the eve of the Civil War and reveals that the growth of the Baptist church in South Carolina paralleled the growth and institutionalization of the American system of slavery--accommodating rather than challenging the prevailing social order of the economically stratified Lowcountry. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKIMBERLY R. KELLISON\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor in the Department of History and associate dean of Arts and Sciences at Baylor University. Her articles have appeared in \u003ci\u003ethe Georgia Historical Quarterly, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eSouth Carolina Historical Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Baptist Quarterly.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 9.21 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42651209236576,"sku":"9781621907596","price":104.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/c3VjSXBINXpPM0dCdzlMeGpNanJFdz09.webp?v=1773823856","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/forging-a-christian-order-south-carolina-baptists-race-and-slavery-1696-1860-hardcover-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}