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Pilgrims of Paradox: Calvinism and Experience among the Primitive Baptists of the Blue Ridge, by James L. Peacock and Ruel W. Tyson Jr. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989)

Pilgrims of Paradox: Calvinism and Experience among the Primitive Baptists of the Blue Ridge, by James L. Peacock and Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989) is an ethnographic study of a dispute among Primitive Baptist elders which threatened to divide several churches in the hill country of western North Carolina and Virginia in 1983. As such, it is a case study of schismatic processes, which are highly ritualized, indeed, the authors argue, routinized, in this Protestant sect. Clerk Nichols and Elder Reed thought that Elders Evans and Yates ought not have "recognized" a newly formed church because it included members who had been "excluded" by another church in their "association" of churches. In the end, Evans and Yates were not publicly repudiated and a split did not occur, but the dispute nonetheless provided Peacock and Tyson with all the motives they needed to explore Primitive Baptist theology, history, sociology, politics, cultural practice, and character. Their many stranded narrative argues powerfully that "the demeanor, procedures, and the way Primitive Baptists enact their dramas—and suppress their climatic potential—translate Calvinism in practice, even when they do not make explicit at every turn the relevant points of doctrine."