Recovering the margins of American religious history : the legacy of David Edwin Harrell, Jr. / edited by B. Dwain Waldrep and Scott Billingsley ; foreword by Wayne Flint.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waldrep, B. Dwain.

Billingsley, Scott, 1968-

Series:

Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

Religion and American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harrell, David Edwin, Jr., 1930-2021.

Harrell, David Edwin.

Harrell, David Edwin, Jr. 1930-2021.

Churches of Christ--History.

Churches of Christ.

Protestant churches--United States--History.

Protestant churches.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 137 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2012]

Summary:

Recovering the Margins of American Religious History, a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together eight essays from Harrell's colleagues, peers, and students, which explore his impact and legacy in the field of American religious studies. Raised in an upper-class family in mid-twentieth-century Jacksonville, Florida, Harrell's membership in the Church of Christ helped establish his sense of self as a spiritual outsider. This early exclusion from the Christian mainstream laid a foundation for Harrell's pioneering studies of marginalized faiths, including the first stirrings of neo fundamentalism and the diminishingly influential social gospel movement.

Harrell's connections with these religious movements point to his deeper ongoing concerns with class, gender, and race as core factors behind religious institutions, and he has unblinkingly investigated a wide range of social dynamics.

Combining an extensive knowledge of and long-standing passion for American religious history with a comprehensive understanding of the developing world, Harrell's research and writings over his lifetime have produced compelling portraits of the American religious underclass, an increased integration of religion into the narrative of world history, and innovative new comparative studies in the healing and charismatic movements of the developing world. Book jacket.

Contents:

David Edwin Harrell, Jr. : American religious historian / Samuel S. Hill

Elijah's never-failing cruse of oil : David Harrell and the historiography of America's Pentecostals / James R. Goff, Jr.

David Edwin Harrell, Jr. and the history of the Stone-Campbell tradition / Richard T. Hughes

David Edwin Harrell, Jr. and the broadening of Southern religious studies / Charles Reagan Wilson

The Midas touch : Kenneth E. Hagin and the Prosperity Gospel / Scott Billingsley

Rock fights, quarantines, and confessionals : B.C. Goodpasture, The gospel advocate, and keeping order in Churches of Christ / John C. Hardin

Northern millenarian fundamentalism in the South, 1900-1950 / B. Dwain Waldrep

Conclusion : the very civil convictions of Ed Harrell / Beth Barton Schweiger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780817357085

0817357084

9780817386092

0817386092

OCLC:

758844977