Title: Religion in the contemporary South : changes, continuities, and contexts /
Authors: Norman, Corrie E., 1959-; Armentrout, Donald S.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Southern States Religion.
Abstract: "Featuring an introduction by Samuel S. Hill, Religion in the Contemporary South brings together fourteen essays by both established and emerging scholars that deal with a spectrum of topics. These topics include religious identities in the South that weaves in and out of the past; new religious expressions in the South and the shifting position of "old" minority traditions; and a microcosmic look at the Episcopal Church. The collection comes at a time of sweeping change in the South, as the 150-year stronghold of evangelical Protestantism - the Baptist-Methodist hegemony - gives way to a more diverse religious tradition - one that includes leadership by women, decreasing marginalization for Roman Catholicism and Judaism, and the growing presence of so-called "alien" religious traditions: Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam." "As the South changes and its religious life evolves, so must scholarship. Religion in the Contemporary South is a guide to the "new" southern religions - more diverse, sometimes controversial, but as vital to the region as ever."--Jacket.
Contents: Part I: The old story : common themes from yesterday to tomorrow -- Women and religion in the south : myth, reality, and meaning / Corrie E. Norman, Heather E. Barclay, and Nancy Hardesty -- Pentecostalism at the end of the twentieth century : from poverty, promise, and passion to prosperity, power, and place / David G. Roebuck -- A crumbling empire : is there a Baptist future in the south? / Bill J. Leonard -- The persistence of evangelical denominationalism in the south and the case for denominational history : Alabama Baptists / Wayne Flynt -- Imagining race and religion in Louisiana : Kasi Lemmons's Eve's Bayou and Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January novels / Carolyn M. Jones -- Part II: The Bible belt loosens : religious diversity in the south today -- From angels to zen : religion and culture in the contemporary south / Charles H. Lippy -- Our lady of Guadeloupe visits the confederate memorial : Latino and Asian religions in the south / Thomas A. Tweed -- The flowering of interest in southern Jewish history and its integration into mainstream history / Mark K. Bauman -- Sweet tea and rosary beads : an analysis of southern Catholic at the millennium / Susan Ridgely Bales -- Temples and beyond : varieties of Hindu experiences in the south / Steven W. Ramey -- Islam in the new south city : an introduction to Muslims in America and Charlotte / Kathryn V. Johnson -- Part III: Behind the red door : the Episcopal microcosm in the south -- "The tradition club" : culture war, memory, and the reinvention of Anglican identity in the modern south / Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. -- Quiet revolutionaries : stories of women priests in the south / D. Jonathan Grieser, Corrie E. Norman, and Don S. Armentrout -- Sacrament and segregation : Episcopalians in the evangelical south / Donald G. Mathews.