Religion in the American South : Protestants and others in history and culture / edited by Beth Barton Schweiger and Donald G. Mathews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schweiger, Beth Barton.

Mathews, Donald G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protestant churches.

History.

Church history.

Southern States--Church history.

Southern States.

Protestant churches--Southern States--History.

Physical Description:

vi, 340 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]

Summary:

This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries - from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The first collection published on the subject in fifteen years, Religion in the American South builds upon a new generation of scholarship to push scholarly conversation about the field to a new level of sophistication by complicating "southern religion" geographically, chronologically, and thematically and by challenging the interpretive hegemony of the "Bible belt." Contributors demonstrate the importance of religion in the South not only to American religious history but also to the history of the nation as a whole. They show that religion touched every corner of society - from the nightclub to the lynching tree, from the church sanctuary to the kitchen hearth. These essays will stimulate discussions of a wide variety of subjects, including eighteenth-century religious history, conversion narratives, religion and violence, the cultural power of prayer, the importance of women in exploiting religious contexts in innovative ways, and the interracialism of southern religious history.

Contents:

Before the Bible belt : Indians, Africans, and the new synthesis of eighteenth-century Southern religious history / Jon F. Sensbach

Max Weber in Mount Airy, or, Revivals and social theory in the early South / Beth Barton Schweiger

Thou knowest not what a day may bring forth : intellect, power, conversion, and apostasy in the life of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus (1788-1838) / Emily Bingham

Confederate sacrifice and the "redemption" of the South / Kurt O. Berends

The royal telephone : early Pentecostalism in the South and the enthusiastic practice of prayer / Daniel Woods

Lynching is part of the religion of our people : faith in the Christian South / Donald G. Mathews

Church mothers and migration in the Church of God in Christ / Anthea D. Butler

Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the evolution of gospel music / Jerma Jackson

Women and Southern religion / Lynn Lyerly

God and Negroes and Jesus and sin and salvation : racism, racial interchange, and interracialism in Southern religious history / Paul Harvey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0807829064

0807855707

OCLC:

55487529