Download or read book Law in American Meetinghouses written by Jeffrey Thomas Perry and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at the changing role of churches in the decades after the American Revolution. Most Americans today would not think of their local church as a site for arbitration and would probably be hesitant to bring their property disputes, moral failings, or personal squabbles to their kin and neighbors for judgment. But from the Revolutionary Era through the mid-nineteenth century, many Protestants imbued local churches with immense authority. Through their ritual practice of discipline, churches insisted that brethren refrain from suing each other before "infidels" at local courts and claimed jurisdiction over a range of disputes: not only moral issues such as swearing, drunkenness, and adultery but also matters more typically considered to be under the purview of common law and courts of equity, including disputes over trespass, land, probate, slave warranty, and theft. In Law in American Meetinghouses, Jeffrey Thomas Perry explores the ways that ordinary Americans—Black and white, enslaved and free—understood and created law in their local communities, uncovering a vibrant marketplace of authority in which church meetinghouses played a central role in maintaining their neighborhoods' social peace. Churches were once prominent sites for the creation of local law and in this period were a primary arena in which civil and religious authority collided and shaped one another. When church discipline failed, the wronged parties often pushed back, and their responses highlight the various forces that ultimately hindered that venue's ability to effectively arbitrate disputes between members. Relying primarily on a deep reading of church records and civil case files, Perry examines how legal transformations, an expanding market economy, and religious controversy led churchgoers to reimagine their congregations' authority. By the 1830s, unable to resolve doctrinal quibbles within the fellowship, church factions turned to state courts to secure control over their meetinghouses, often demanding that judges wade into messy ecclesiastical disputes. Tracking changes in disciplinary rigor in Kentucky Baptist churches from that state's frontier period through 1845, and looking beyond statutes and court decrees, Law in American Meetinghouses is a fresh take on church-state relations. Ultimately, it highlights an oft-forgotten way that Americans subtly repositioned religious institutions alongside state authority.
Download or read book Early Connecticut Meetinghouses written by John Frederick Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New England Churches Meetinghouses 1680 1830 written by Peter T. Mallary and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plain Meetinghouses written by Beth Oberholtzer and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Order Mennonites are deeply faithful, agrarian-rooted, Swiss-German Anabaptists who have called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, home for 300 years. Their meetinghouses silently embody their religious traditions, and yet few outsiders have seen the startling utilitarian beauty of these rural structures up close. The author and photographer were allowed rare access to 22 austere houses of worship. The result is a one-of-a-kind book featuring over 300 photos and diagrams that document all aspects of the meetinghouses, from the design of their benches and buggy sheds to the arrangement of tables central to worship. As fast-growing Lancaster County encroaches on the Old Order way of life, their communities are changing. This book is a record of an extraordinary religious heritage.
Download or read book A Space for Faith written by Paul Wainwright and published by Jetty House. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using only four-by-five-inch sheet film and natural light, photographer Paul Wainwright collected and presents images, both internal and external, of New England's remaining colonial meetinghouses.
Download or read book The Meetinghouse Tragedy written by Charles E. Clark and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of a colonial town's experience of and response to communal catastrophe.
Download or read book Extracts from the Minutes of the Yearly Meeting of Friends Convening at Race Street written by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends Held at Richmond Ind written by Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828- ) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards a history of the Quaker Meeting at Newgarden County Carlow 1650 1730 including some New methods for analyzing Quaker records written by Peter Coutts and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author analyses and describes the manner in which the Newgarden Meeting evolved from circa 1650 to 1730, exploring a wide range of topics including the growth in membership, Meeting discipline, governance, socio-economic status, tithe assessment, record keeping, religious life, education and migration. A number of new approaches to the analysis of Quaker records are used to assess participation of members in Meeting governance and readers are introduced to a "Reconstitution Model" that incorporates and integrates all manner of Quaker records enabling researchers to estimate Meeting membership at any point in time as well as to explore many other aspects of Quaker life with reasonable confidence. The author demonstrates that the Meeting was essentially governed by the wealthiest Members and he offers a number of select biographies of the wealthy and Members of lesser socio-economic status for comparison.
Download or read book Old Churches and Meeting Houses in and Around Philadelphia written by John Thomson Faris and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quakers and their Meeting Houses written by Chris Skidmore and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fascinating account of the architecture and historical development of the Quaker meeting house from the foundation of the movement to the twenty-first century. The Quaker meeting house is a distinctive building type used as a place of worship by members of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Starting with buildings of the late-seventeenth century, the book maps how the changing beliefs and practices of Quakers over the last 350 years have affected the architecture of the meeting house. The buildings considered are illustrated, predominantly in colour, and are from England, Scotland and Wales, with some consideration of colonial American examples. The book commences with an introduction which provides an accessible account of the early history of Quakerism and it concludes with a consideration of whether there is a Quaker architectural style and of what it might consist.
Download or read book Minutes of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends written by Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1975) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses in London Westminster and Southwark written by Walter Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Discipline of the Society of Friends of Indiana Yearly Meeting written by Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828- ) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes of Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends written by Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical Account of the Various Meeting houses of the Society of Friends in Boston written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers Read Before the Centennial of Newtown Friends Meeting Fourth Month 10th 1915 written by Newtown Preparative Meeting (Pa. : Society of Friends). and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
