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Wills's work is excellent, both in its scholarship and presentation.--Mississippi Quarterly<br> Wills has produced a splendid study that should long serve as a model of how to research and to write religious history.--Baptist History and Heritage<br> Wills' work is a thoughtful analysis of an historical practice with decidedly contemporary implications. --Journal of Southern Religion<br> Well written, this book is a model of using church records as key sources. Important for students of southern religion and culture and American religious life more generally. --Choice<br> . will make a significant contribution to the field of American religious history. --Paul Harvey, Colorado College<br> It is excellent, a real breakthrough in the use of local church records. His impressively documented and compelling argument brings to light the practice of Baptist 'democratic' culture during the century in which the South took shape.... Structured as it is on an imaginative exploitation of rich local Baptist records, especially in Georgia, this innovative work will be welcomed by students of American religion and Southern culture alike. --Donald G. Mathews, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<br> Wills uses the prism of church discipline to examine critical questions of race, theology, the role of women, and the nature of the church as addressed by nineteenth-century Georgia Baptists. His well-written work offers a critical case study in Baptist polity and popular religion. The book is a valuable contribution to studies in grassroots Christianity in the South. --Bill J. Leonard, Wake Forest University<br> This important study is going to generate a lot of rethinking and debateregarding the contested history of the Southern Baptist Convention. --George Marsden, University of Notre Dame<br>

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