Baptists in America

by Bill J. Leonard

Book Overview

Baptists are a study in contrasts. From Little Dove Old Regular Baptist Church, up a hollow in the Appalachian Mountains, with its 25-member congregation, to the 18,000-strong Saddleback Valley Church in Orange County, California, where hymns appear on wide-screen projectors; from Jerry Falwell, Jesse Helms, and Tim LaHaye to Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, and Maya Angelou, Baptist churches and their members have encompassed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231127030
• ISBN13: 9780231127035
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"