Religion and Public Life in the South: In the Evangelical ModeCharles Reagan Wilson, Mark Silk In July 2002 chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court had a two-ton monument of the Ten Commandments placed into the rotunda of the Montgomery state judicial building. But this action is only a recent case in the long history of religiously inspired public movements in the American South. From the Civil War to the Scopes Trial to the Moral Majority, white Southern evangelicals have taken ideas they see as drawn from the Christian Scriptures and tried to make them into public law. But blacks, women, subregions, and other religious groups too vie for power within and outside this Southern Religious Establishment. Religion and Public Life in the South gives voice to both the establishment and its dissenters and shows why more than any other region of the country, religion drives public debate in the South. |
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... American religion as a whole . 1. Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest : The None Zone Edited by Patricia O'Connell Killen ( Pacific Lutheran University ) and Mark Silk 2. Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West ...
... American religion as a whole . 1. Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest : The None Zone Edited by Patricia O'Connell Killen ( Pacific Lutheran University ) and Mark Silk 2. Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West ...
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... Religion by the Numbers 31 Ted Ownby CHAPTER TWO - At Ease in Zion , Uneasy in Babylon : White Evangelicals 63 Paul Harvey CHAPTER THREE - Semi - Involuntary : African - American Religion 79 William E. Montgomery CHAPTER FOUR - In ...
... Religion by the Numbers 31 Ted Ownby CHAPTER TWO - At Ease in Zion , Uneasy in Babylon : White Evangelicals 63 Paul Harvey CHAPTER THREE - Semi - Involuntary : African - American Religion 79 William E. Montgomery CHAPTER FOUR - In ...
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... religious identities and habits of the local population . Yet when the story of religion in American public life gets told , the country's variegated religious landscape tends to be reduced to a series of monochrome portraits of the ...
... religious identities and habits of the local population . Yet when the story of religion in American public life gets told , the country's variegated religious landscape tends to be reduced to a series of monochrome portraits of the ...
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... religion in contemporary America . The project's division of the country into regions will be generally familiar , with the exception of what we are calling the Southern Crossroads a region roughly equivalent to what American historians ...
... religion in contemporary America . The project's division of the country into regions will be generally familiar , with the exception of what we are calling the Southern Crossroads a region roughly equivalent to what American historians ...
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... Religion by Region does not argue that religion plays the same kind of role in each region of the country ; nor does it mean to advance the proposition that religion is the master key that unlocks all the secrets of American public life ...
... Religion by Region does not argue that religion plays the same kind of role in each region of the country ; nor does it mean to advance the proposition that religion is the master key that unlocks all the secrets of American public life ...
Contents
EVANGELICAL BUT DIFFERENTIATED RELIGION BY THE NUMBERS | 31 |
AT EASE IN ZION UNEASY IN BABYLON WHITE EVANGELICALS | 63 |
SEMIINVOLUNTARY AFRICANAMERICAN RELIGION | 79 |
IN SERVICE SILENCE AND STRENGTH WOMEN IN SOUTHERN CHURCHES | 101 |
TACTICS FOR SURVIVAL RELIGIOUS MINORITIES | 125 |
THE PERIPHERAL SOUTH FLORIDA AND APPALACHIA | 141 |
THE CIVIL RELIGIONS OF THE SOUTH | 165 |
MOBILIZED FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM | 195 |
APPENDIX | 207 |
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CONTRIBUTORS | 223 |
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