Religion in the American South
Subtitle: Protestants and others in history and culture
By: edited by Beth Barton Schweiger and Donald G. Mathews.
Contributors: Schweiger, Beth Barton.; Mathews, Donald G.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Protestant churches -- Southern States -- History; Southern States -- Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the Bible belt : Indians, Africans, and the new synthesis of eighteenth-century Southern religious history / Jon F. Sensbach; title: Max Weber in Mount Airy, or, Revivals and social theory in the early South / Beth Barton Schweiger; title: Thou knowest not what a day may bring forth : intellect, power, conversion, and apostasy in the life of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus (1788-1838) / Emily Bingham; title: Confederate sacrifice and the "redemption" of the South / Kurt O. Berends; title: The royal telephone : early Pentecostalism in the South and the enthusiastic practice of prayer / Daniel Woods; title: Lynching is part of the religion of our people : faith in the Christian South / Donald G. Mathews; title: Church mothers and migration in the Church of God in Christ / Anthea D. Butler; title: Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the evolution of gospel music / Jerma Jackson; title: Women and Southern religion / Lynn Lyerly; title: God and Negroes and Jesus and sin and salvation : racism, racial interchange, and interracialism in Southern religious history / Paul Harvey.