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

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Beth Barton Schweiger, Donald G. Mathews
Univ of North Carolina Press, 12.10.2005 - 352 sivua
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.

Contributors:
Kurt O. Berends, University of Notre Dame
Emily Bingham, Louisville, Kentucky
Anthea D. Butler, Loyola Marymount University
Paul Harvey, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Jerma Jackson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lynn Lyerly, Boston College
Donald G. Mathews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jon F. Sensbach, University of Florida
Beth Barton Schweiger, University of Arkansas
Daniel Woods, Ferrum College

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Introduction
1
Indians Africans and the New Synthesis of EighteenthCentury Southern Religious History
5
2 Max Weber in Mount Airy Or Revivals and Social Theory in the Early South
31
Intellect Power Conversion and Apostasy in the Life of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus 17881838
67
4 Confederate Sacrifice and the Redemption of the South
99
Early Pentecostalism in the South and the Enthusiastic Practice of Prayer
125
Faith in the Christian South
153
7 Church Mothers and Migration in the Church of God in Christ
195
8 Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Evolution of Gospel Music
219
9 Women and Southern Religion
247
Racism Racial Interchange and Interracialism in Southern Religious History
283
Contributors
331
Index
333
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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 emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author or coauthor of several books, including Religion in the Old South.

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