Strangers Below

Before the Bible Belt fastened itself across the South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over their faith''s future, and a contrarian sect, self-named the Primitive Baptists, made its stand. Joshua Guthman here tells the story of how a band of antimissionary and antirevivalistic Baptists defended Calvinism, America''s oldest Protestant creed, from what they feared were the unbridled force...