Religion / Samuel S. Hill, volume editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hill, Samuel S.

University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Series:

New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 1.

New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Southern States--Encyclopedias.

Christianity.

Southern States--Religion--Encyclopedias.

Southern States.

Southern States--Religious life and customs--Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century. Even as the conservative Protestantism typically associated with the South has risen in social and political prominence throughout the United States in recent decades, however, religious culture in the South itself has grown increasingly diverse. The region has seen a surge of immigration from other parts of the United States as well as from Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, bringing increased visibility to Catholicism, Islam, and Asian religions in the once solidly Protestant Christian South. In this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, contributors have revised entries from the original Encyclopedia on topics ranging from religious broadcasting to snake handling and added new entries on such topics as Asian religions, Latino religion, New Age religion, Islam, Native American religion, and social activism. With the contributions of more than 60 authorities in the field--including Paul Harvey, Loyal Jones, Wayne Flynt, and Samuel F. Weber--this volume is an accessibly written, up-to-date reference to religious culture in the American South.

Contents:

RELIGION; Appalachian Religion; Architecture, Church; Asian Religions; Black Religion; Broadcasting, Religious; Calvinism; Churches, Country; Civil Rights and Religion; Diversity, Religious; Ethnic Protestantism; Folk Religion; Frontier Religion; Fundamentalism; Islam; Jewish Religious Life; Latino Religion; Literature and Religion; Missionary Activities; Modernism and Religion; Native American Religion; New Age Religion; Pentecostalism; Politics and Religion; Preacher, Black Folk; Preacher, White; Protestantism; Restorationist Christianity

RevivalismRoman Catholicism; Social Activism; Spirituality; Sports and Religion; Theological Orthodoxy; Urban Religion; Women and Religion; Zion, South as; African Methodist Episcopal Churches; Asbury, Francis; Bible Belt; Blue Laws; Campbell, Alexander; Campbell, Will D.; Camps and Retreats; Cannon, James, Jr.; Christian Broadcasting Network; Dabbs, James McBride; England, John; Falwell, Jerry; Fatalism; Graham, Billy; Great Revival; Hays, Brooks; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Merton, Thomas; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Moon, Charlotte Digges ''Lottie''; Moral Majority; Moravians

National BaptistsO'Connor and Religion; Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS); Prohibition; Protestant Episcopal Church; Roberts, Oral; Sacred Places; Serpent Handlers; Shakers; Southern Baptist Convention; Sunday Schools; Thornwell, James Henley.

Notes:

One of a series of volumes that build upon the original 24 subject categories used in the Encyclopedia of Southern culture, first published in 1991.

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

979-88-908776-2-8

979-88-9313-159-8

1-4696-1657-2

0-8078-7716-6

OCLC:

81601528