The Journal of Southern History, August 1st, 2006
Baptists in America. By Bill J. Leonard. Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. (New York: Columbia University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 316. $45.00, ISBN 0-231-12702-2.)
Touch someone's religion and you touch their all. Adding to the dangers inherent in handling religion is the extremely varied and quarrelsome nature of Baptist religion. The difficulties that assail the secular historian are multiplied for the historian of religion. On the one hand, all religious traditions have a certain "inwardness" that can only be grasped by one who has believed and practiced them. The outsider l...
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