Through a Glass Darkly

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Key Themes

1. Baptists, Church, and State: Rejecting Establishments, Relishing Privilege

Bill J. Leonard

2. Democratic Religion Revisited: Early Baptists in the American South

Jewel L. Spangler

Part II. Biography

3. Persecution and Polemics: Baptists and the Shaping of the Roger Williams Tradition in the Nineteenth Century

James P. Byrd

4. E. Y. Mullins and the Siren Songs of Modernity

Curtis W. Freeman

5. The Contested Legacy of Lottie Moon: Southern Baptists, Women, and Partisan Protestantism

Elizabeth H. Flowers

6. Walter Rauschenbusch and the Second Coming: The Social Gospel as Baptist History

Christopher H. Evans

7. "I Am Fundamentally a Clergyman, a Baptist Preacher": Martin Luther King Jr., Social Christianity, and the Baptist Faith in an Era of Civil Rights

Edward R. Crowther

Part III. Historiography

8. "Written that Ye May Believe": Primitive Baptist Historiography

John G. Crowley

9. Reframing the Past: The Impact of Institutional and Ideological Agendas on Modern Interpretations of Landmarkism

James A. Patterson

10. Is There a River?: Black Baptists, the Uses of History, and the Long History of the Freedom Movement

Paul Harvey

11. Symbolic History in the Cold War Era

Alan Scot Willis

12. Southern Baptists and the F-Word: A Historiography of the Southern Baptist Convention Controversy and What It Might Mean

Barry Hankins

Contributors

Index