автор: Janet Moore Lindman

The American Baptist church originated in British North America as ‘little tabernacles in the wilderness, ‘ isolated seventeenth-century congregations that had grown into a mainstream denomination by …

Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going ‘naked as a sign, ‘ flogging, bundling, and scalpin …