To Contest with All the Powers of Darkness: New England Baptists, Religious Liberty, and New Political Landscapes, 1740-1833

＂This book examines the ecclesiological and political networks that John Leland (1754-1833) and other Baptist leaders-among them, Jonathan Going, Luther Rice, Isaac Backus, and Samuel Stilman-created to attempt political disestablishment in Massachusetts during Leland’s lifetime. The author contends that historiography that focuses narrowly on Leland tends to distort the very important role he played in the development of religious freedom in the revolutionary and Early Republic period＂--

JACOB E. HICKS is assistant professor of religion at Grand Canyon University. He has written book reviews for a variety of publications, including Church History, Nova Religion, and Religious Studies Review.