Editing Primitive Baptists (section)

===Foot washing===
Most Primitive Baptists perform [[Maundy (foot washing)|foot washing]] as a symbol of humility and service among the membership.<ref name=FLS>{{cite news|title='Primitive' rituals are few, simple|author=Cassada, Mary Eva | newspaper=[[The Free Lance-Star]] | date=June 8, 1991 | agency=[[Associated Press]] |  page=12 | url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z-MPAAAAIBAJ&pg=7014%2C1417730 |access-date=2012-05-24}}</ref><ref name=CT>{{cite news | title=Baptist Group Looks To The Old, New | newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] | author= Eisenstadt, Todd | date=August 21, 1987 | url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/08/21/baptist-group-looks-to-the-old-new/ | access-date=2012-05-24}}</ref>  The sexes are separated during the ritual where one person washes the feet of another.<ref name=FLS /><ref name=CT /><ref name=HDB>{{cite book| author=Brackney, William H.| title=Historical Dictionary of the Baptists | chapter=Foot Washing |pages=219–220 | year= 2009 | publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810856226 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Noz7WtnOV-kC&pg=PA219 | access-date=2012-05-24}}</ref>  The practice is credited with increasing equality, as opposed to hierarchy, within Primitive Baptist churches.<ref name=MPB>{{cite book|title=The Making of the Primitive Baptists: A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Antimission Movement, 1800–1840 |author=Mathis, James R. |page=106 |year=2004|publisher=[[Psychology Press]] |isbn=9780415948715| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=W9_bpHRpA_MC&pg=PA106 | access-date=2012-05-24}}</ref>