The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (356 page)

 
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(1615–91).
Puritan
writer and theologian. Shropshire born and largely self-educated, Baxter was influenced by two
Nonconformist
preachers, Joseph Symons and Walter Craddock. Ordained
deacon
in 1638 by the bishop of Worcester, he served as curate at Kidderminster. At the Restoration he refused the bishopric of Hereford, taking his place with other ejected Nonconformists. His total literary output of 141 books and pamphlets includes such outstanding works as
The Saints’ Everlasting Rest
(1650) and
Gildas Salvianus: The Reformed Pastor
(1656). His lengthy autobiography,
Reliquiae Baxterianae
, was edited by Matthew
Sylvester
and published posthumously in 1696. Some of his hymns are still in use (e.g. ‘Ye holy
angels
bright’).

 
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Bay ‘at
(pact among S
f
s)
:

see
INITIATION
.

 
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Bayram
.

In Turkey denotes
‘
d
, feast.

 
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(Luganda, ‘the Jews’). An African community in E. Uganda, officially known as ‘The Propagation of Judaism in Uganda—Moses Synagogue’. The founder, Semei Kakungulu (?1850s–1928), was an outstanding Ganda political and military leader who became a
Protestant
in the 1880s, but when disappointed in not being made Kabaka (‘king’), he turned to religion and joined the semi-Christian, anti-medicine Bamalaki movement which had Judaic features. After deep study he took the
Old Testament
literally and left in 1919 to form his own Bayudaya movement which insisted on
circumcision
, the biblical festivals, and ritual slaughter.

 
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