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

Other author Schweiger, Beth Barton.
Other author Mathews, Donald G.
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
Descriptionvi, 340 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Protestant churches--Southern States. --History.
Southern States--Church history.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004008916
ISBN0807829064 (alk. paper)
ISBN0807855707 (pbk. : alk. paper)