Redeeming the South : religious cultures and racial identities among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925 / Paul Harvey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harvey, Paul, 1961-

Series:

The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies Redeeming the South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern Baptist Convention--History.

Southern Baptist Convention.

National Baptist Convention of the United States of America--History.

National Baptist Convention of the United States of America.

Baptists--Southern States--History--19th century.

Baptists.

Baptists--Southern States--History--20th century.

African American Baptists--Southern States--History--19th century.

African American Baptists.

African American Baptists--Southern States--History--20th century.

Southern States--Race relations.

Southern States.

Southern States--Church history--19th century.

Southern States--Church history--20th century.

Baptists--History--19th century--Southern States.

Baptists--History--20th century--Southern States.

African American Baptists--History--19th century--Southern States.

African American Baptists--History--20th Century--Southern States.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 330 p. )

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped the South. Adopting a biracial and bicultural focus, Paul Harvey works to redefine southern religious history, and by extension southern culture, as the product of such interaction--the result of whites and blacks having drawn from and influenced each other even while remaining separate and distinct. Harvey explores the parallels and divergences of black and white religious institutions as manifested through differences in worship styles, sacred music, and political agendas. He examines the relationship of broad social phenomena like progressivism and modernization to the development of southern religion, focusing on the clash between rural southern folk religious expression and models of spirituality drawn from northern Victorian standards. In tracing the growth of Baptist churches from small outposts of radically democratic plain-folk religion in the mid-eighteenth century to conservative and culturally dominant institutions in the twentieth century, Harvey explores one of the most impressive evolutions of American religious and cultural history.

Contents:

Introduction: Southern Baptist and southern religious history

pt. 1. Religion, race, and reconstruction:

Redeemed by the blood: white Baptist organizing in the south, 1865 -1895

A wall of the Lord 'round me: black Baptist organizing in the south, 1865 -1895

pt. 2. Religious cultures and the social order in the new south:

These untutored masses: spirituality and respectability among white Southern Baptist

God stepped in my soul: spirituality and respectability among black Southern Baptist

The character of ministerial manliness: white Southern Baptist

Intriguers and idealists: black Southern Baptist ministers, 1870

1925

pt. 3. Southern Baptist progressivism:

Scientific management in our church-craft: white Southern Baptist progressivism, 1895

The Holy Spirit come to us and forbid the negro taking a second place: black Southern Baptists in the age of Jim Crow

Conclusion: religion, race and culture in the south.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-315) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9798890868404

9780807861950

0807861952