This important work highlights the role that religion played in changing the patterns of deference in colonial Virginia. The Baptist movement served as a counter-culture to the prevailing order dominated by the gentry. This hegemony waned as a result of the influence of the Baptists. This undermined the ideological hegemony of the elites as the Protestant movements began to spread throughout the colonies.
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