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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... Women in 101 Southern Churches Cynthia Lynn Lyerly CHAPTER FIVE - Tactics for Survival : Religious Minorities 125 Charles H. Lippy CHAPTER SIX - The Peripheral South : Florida and Appalachia Samuel S. Hill 141 CHAPTER SEVEN - The Civil ...
... Women in 101 Southern Churches Cynthia Lynn Lyerly CHAPTER FIVE - Tactics for Survival : Religious Minorities 125 Charles H. Lippy CHAPTER SIX - The Peripheral South : Florida and Appalachia Samuel S. Hill 141 CHAPTER SEVEN - The Civil ...
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... women within their submissive " place . " The religion expressed in " Preachin ' , Prayin ' , Singin ' " was not Anglicanism , but evangelical Protestantism , which emerged in the late eighteenth - cen- tury southern colonies among the ...
... women within their submissive " place . " The religion expressed in " Preachin ' , Prayin ' , Singin ' " was not Anglicanism , but evangelical Protestantism , which emerged in the late eighteenth - cen- tury southern colonies among the ...
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... women joined with ministers in staging rallies to support the troops , preaching sacrifice for home and God . feeding those in need , teaching the children of veterans , nursing the sick , and leading missionary societies . The war ...
... women joined with ministers in staging rallies to support the troops , preaching sacrifice for home and God . feeding those in need , teaching the children of veterans , nursing the sick , and leading missionary societies . The war ...
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... women's suffrage . As Paul Harvey notes in his chapter , the South harbored many " inside agitators " and most of them used their faith to spur reform . Tensions remained , though , between mainline popular southern denomina- tions that ...
... women's suffrage . As Paul Harvey notes in his chapter , the South harbored many " inside agitators " and most of them used their faith to spur reform . Tensions remained , though , between mainline popular southern denomina- tions that ...
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... women in their place at the base of the envisioned healthy society . Since 1980 SBC resolutions have affirmed that women should forever be subjected to men and have banned them from ordination to church ministry . Still , as Cynthia ...
... women in their place at the base of the envisioned healthy society . Since 1980 SBC resolutions have affirmed that women should forever be subjected to men and have banned them from ordination to church ministry . Still , as Cynthia ...
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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