{"id":7336,"date":"2012-04-11T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/bulspecialcollections\/?p=658"},"modified":"2012-04-11T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T19:23:17","slug":"baptist-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/baptist-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptist Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The records for 4 Baptist churches have been donated to the John Hay Library during the past year to augment the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/collatoz\/info.php?id=31.\"><strong>Baptist Collection<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/riamco\/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2011.018&amp;view=title\">Shawomet Baptist Church<\/a>, Warwick, RI, 1842-2011<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Meshanticut Baptist Church, Cranston, RI, 1899-2011<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/riamco\/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2012.009&amp;view=title\">Roger Williams Baptist Church<\/a>, Providence, RI, 1867-2011<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Niantic Baptist Church, Westerly, RI, 1851-2012<\/p>\n<p>The records of these churches provide documentation related to the debate over the vitality of religious organizations in the United States.\u00a0 All four churches served as vital centers of worship for their communities for 100-160 years.\u00a0 They all survived the tumult of the economic, social and political upheavals and changing neighborhood demographics of the past 160+ years.\u00a0 The reason for their closure may be linked to a larger societal trend or may simply be the natural life cycle of an organization.\u00a0 They are now available for use by researchers interested in that topic or many others involving the role of religion in the life of a community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The records for 4 Baptist churches have been donated to the John Hay Library during the past year to augment the Baptist Collection. 1.\u00a0 Shawomet Baptist Church, Warwick, RI, 1842-2011 2.\u00a0 Meshanticut Baptist Church, Cranston, RI, 1899-2011 3.\u00a0 Roger Williams Baptist Church, Providence, RI, 1867-2011 4.\u00a0 Niantic Baptist Church, Westerly, RI, 1851-2012 The records of <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/baptist-churches\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Baptist Churches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35,36,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-general-interest","category-new-acquisitions","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}