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...
Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century. Even as the conservative Protestantism ty...
Hill s landmark work in southern religious history returns to print updated and expanded and compellingly relevant.
In 1966, Samuel S. Hill s Southern Churches in Crisis argued that southern Protestantism, a cornerstone of white southern society and culture, was shirking its moral duty by refusing to join in the fight for racial justice. Hill predicted that the church was risking its standing in southern society and that it would ultimately decline in influence and power. A groundbreaking study at the time, Hill s book helped establish southern religious history as a field of...
Hill s landmark work in southern religious history returns to print updated and expanded and compellingly relevant.
First published in 1967, Rufus Spain s thorough investigation into Southern Baptist attitudes set the stage for research on religion in the American South. In "At Ease in Zion," Spain questions the titular ease with society that Southern Baptists seemed to maintain following the Civil War. His analysis of denominational newspapers, as well as reports from the Southern Baptist Convention and state conventions, paint a compelling picture of the subjects complacency with their social existence, even as they criticized personal and recreational ethics. While the South faced significant...
First published in 1967, Rufus Spain s thorough investigation into Southern Baptist attitudes set the stage for research on religion in the America...
In this richly suggestive overview, a noted historian illuminates the variety and vitality of southern religion by examining three major Protestant denominational families in the region: Baptists, "Christians" (for example, the Churches of Christ), and the "of God" groups (Pentecostals, among others). Ranging in coverage from the colonial period to the present, with special emphasis on the nineteenth century, Samuel S. Hill traces the growth and diversification of each of these groups as they have sloughed off old patterns, conventions, and constraints in their never-ending searches for...
In this richly suggestive overview, a noted historian illuminates the variety and vitality of southern religion by examining three major Protestant...
It has been one of the major news stories in religion and culture of the past twenty-five years. From 1979 to 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was rocked by assaults on its leadership by fundamentalists, who used questionable tactics to gain top positions and then used their power to purge Baptist seminary presidents and professors, church pastors, lay leaders, and women from positions of responsibility. America's largest Christian, non-Catholic denomination is firmly locked in a holy war to secure its churches and membership for a never-ending struggle against a liberal...
It has been one of the major news stories in religion and culture of the past twenty-five years. From 1979 to 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention (S...
