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wh246q20m04	Laura Rominger Porter	From Sin to Crime: Evangelicals and the Public Moral Order in the Nineteenth-century Upper South	2013		.txt	text/plain	306	9	19	This dissertation examines the complex interconnections among local church discipline, competitive party politics, and the ordering of public morality in the nineteenth-century upper South, illuminating southern evangelicals' once-ambivalent view of the state and their contested path to supporting moral legislation. This dissertation argues that as regulatory bodies in their own right, churches were both sites of political conflict over what constituted 'sin' and local, voluntary governing institutions that fostered resistance to the political tactics and statist paternalism of moral reformers.	cache/wh246q20m04.txt	txt/wh246q20m04.txt