Religion in the American South: Protestants and Others in History and Culture - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807855707 ISBN 13: 9780807855706

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Synopsis

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 discussion 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.

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Review:

"Essential reading for those interested in where the study of the subject might be headed."
-- "Journal of Southern Religion"

"[A] masterful analysis of the interaction between black and white evangelicalism. . . . [The] categorizations (racism, racial interchange, and interracialism) have never been clearer, more precise, or more stimulating."
-- "Arkansas Historical Quarterly"

"Well crafted and well argued."
-- "American Historical Review"

"The essayists present thought-provoking research that will inspire further conversations about this large topic."
-- "Choice"

About the Author:

Beth Barton Schweiger is assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas. She is author of The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia. Donald G. Mathews is professor of history and American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author or coauthor of several books, including Religion in the Old South.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0807855707
• ISBN 13: 9780807855706
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Schweiger Beth Barton