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Religion in the American South : Protestants and others in history and culture / edited by Beth Barton Schweiger and Donald G. Mathews.

Contributor(s): Schweiger, Beth Barton | Mathews, Donald G
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004Description: vi, 340 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0807855707 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780807855706 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0807829064 (alk. paper); 9780807829066 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Southern States -- Church history | Protestant churches -- Southern States -- HistoryDDC classification: 277.5 LOC classification: BR535 | .R42 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Donald G. Mathews -- Before the Bible belt: Indians, Africans, and the new synthesis of eighteenth-century Southern religious history / Jon F. Sensbach -- Max Weber in Mount Airy, or, revivals and social theory in the early South / Beth Barton Schweiger -- 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 -- Confederate sacrifice and the "redemption" of the South / Kurt O. Berends -- The royal telephone: early Pentecostalism in the South and the enthusiastic practice of prayer / Daniel Woods -- Lynching is part of the religion of our people: faith in the Christian South / Donald G. Mathews -- Church mothers and migration in the Church of God in Christ / Anthea D. Butler -- Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the evolution of gospel music / Jerma Jackson -- Women and Southern religion / Lynn Lyerly -- God and Negroes and Jesus and sin and salvation: racism, racial interchange, and interracialism in Southern religious history / Paul Harvey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Donald G. Mathews -- Before the Bible belt: Indians, Africans, and the new synthesis of eighteenth-century Southern religious history / Jon F. Sensbach -- Max Weber in Mount Airy, or, revivals and social theory in the early South / Beth Barton Schweiger -- 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 -- Confederate sacrifice and the "redemption" of the South / Kurt O. Berends -- The royal telephone: early Pentecostalism in the South and the enthusiastic practice of prayer / Daniel Woods -- Lynching is part of the religion of our people: faith in the Christian South / Donald G. Mathews -- Church mothers and migration in the Church of God in Christ / Anthea D. Butler -- Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the evolution of gospel music / Jerma Jackson -- Women and Southern religion / Lynn Lyerly -- God and Negroes and Jesus and sin and salvation: racism, racial interchange, and interracialism in Southern religious history / Paul Harvey.

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