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Southern churches in crisis revisited / Samuel S. Hill.

By: Hill, Samuel S
Contributor(s): Hill, Samuel S. Southern churches in crisis
Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.): Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1999Edition: New editionDescription: lxix, 234 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0817309799 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Protestant churches -- Southern States | Southern States -- Church historyDDC classification: 280/.4/0975 LOC classification: BR535 | .H5 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-229) and index.
Contents:
The distinctiveness of the Southern religious picture. The changing South and regional religion: an overview ; The Southern accent in religion ; The peculiarity of the Southern religious situation ; The shaping forces in the Southern religious heritage -- The essence of popular Southern Protestantism. The central theme ; Theological fruits of the central theme ; Practical fruits of the central theme -- Classification of popular Southern Protestantism. Southern religion in relation to historical Christianity ; Church-type, sect-type -- Beyond analysis: the church in a changing society. The uses of religion in the South ; The threat of rejection ; The danger of irresponsibility.

Revised edition of: Southern churches in crisis. 1st edition 1967.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-229) and index.

The distinctiveness of the Southern religious picture. The changing South and regional religion: an overview ; The Southern accent in religion ; The peculiarity of the Southern religious situation ; The shaping forces in the Southern religious heritage -- The essence of popular Southern Protestantism. The central theme ; Theological fruits of the central theme ; Practical fruits of the central theme -- Classification of popular Southern Protestantism. Southern religion in relation to historical Christianity ; Church-type, sect-type -- Beyond analysis: the church in a changing society. The uses of religion in the South ; The threat of rejection ; The danger of irresponsibility.

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