Southern Religion Southern Culture

Author : Darren E. Grem,Ted Ownby,James G. Thomas (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Church historians
ISBN : 1496820495

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Southern Religion, Southern Culture by Darren E. Grem,Ted Ownby,James G. Thomas (Jr.) Pdf

"Over more than three decades of teaching at the University of Mississippi, Charles Reagan Wilson's research and writing transformed southern studies in key ways. This volume pays tribute to and extends Wilson's seminal work on southern religion and culture. Using certain episodes and moments in southern religious history, the essays examine the place and power of religion in southern communities and society. It emulates Wilson's model, featuring both majority and minority voices from archives and applying a variety of methods to explain the South's religious diversity and how religion mattered in many arenas of private and public life, often with life-or-death stakes. The volume first concentrates on churches and ministers, and then considers religious and cultural constructions outside formal religious bodies and institutions. It examines the faiths expressed via the region's fields, streets, homes, public squares, recreational venues, roadsides, and stages. In doing so, this book shows that Wilson's groundbreaking work on religion is an essential part of southern studies and crucial for fostering deeper understanding of the South's complicated history and culture."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson,James G. Thomas (Jr.),Ann J. Abadie
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000060501752

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Religion by Charles Reagan Wilson,James G. Thomas (Jr.),Ann J. Abadie Pdf

Volume 4: Myth, manners, and memory. This volume addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice.

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson,William R. Ferris
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0385415486

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Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Religion-Women's life by Charles Reagan Wilson,William R. Ferris Pdf

Author : E. Brooks Holifield
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725220713

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The Gentlemen Theologians by E. Brooks Holifield Pdf

Professor Holifield locates the southern theologians in their broader American setting and in the context of European debates about reason, revelation, science, and moral philosophy. He thus explores a wide range of topics that clarify the history of southern--and American--religion: the presuppositions of liberalism and the logic of conservatism; the influence of Scottish Common-Sense Philosophers, British theologians, and German Biblical critics; the foundations and functions of southern social ethics; the didactic uses of ritual; and the continuing effort of nineteenth-century theologians to demonstrate the reasonableness of both the Christian religion and the whole natural order.

Author : Darren E. Grem,Ted Ownby,Jr., James G. Thomas
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496820501

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Southern Religion, Southern Culture by Darren E. Grem,Ted Ownby,Jr., James G. Thomas Pdf

Contributions by Ryan L. Fletcher, Darren E. Grem, Paul Harvey, Alicia Jackson, Ted Ownby, Otis W. Pickett, Arthur Remillard, Chad Seales, and Randall J. Stephens Over more than three decades of teaching at the University of Mississippi, Charles Reagan Wilson's research and writing transformed southern studies in key ways. This volume pays tribute to and extends Wilson's seminal work on southern religion and culture. Using certain episodes and moments in southern religious history, the essays examine the place and power of religion in southern communities and society. It emulates Wilson's model, featuring both majority and minority voices from archives and applying a variety of methods to explain the South's religious diversity and how religion mattered in many arenas of private and public life, often with life-or-death stakes. The volume first concentrates on churches and ministers, and then considers religious and cultural constructions outside formal religious bodies and institutions. It examines the faiths expressed via the region's fields, streets, homes, public squares, recreational venues, roadsides, and stages. In doing so, this book shows that Wilson's groundbreaking work on religion is an essential part of southern studies and crucial for fostering deeper understanding of the South's complicated history and culture.

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0807835595

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Charles Reagan Wilson Pdf

New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 20: Social Class

Author : Samuel S. Hill
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780807877166

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Samuel S. Hill Pdf

Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century. Even as the conservative Protestantism typically associated with the South has risen in social and political prominence throughout the United States in recent decades, however, religious culture in the South itself has grown increasingly diverse. The region has seen a surge of immigration from other parts of the United States as well as from Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, bringing increased visibility to Catholicism, Islam, and Asian religions in the once solidly Protestant Christian South. In this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, contributors have revised entries from the original Encyclopedia on topics ranging from religious broadcasting to snake handling and added new entries on such topics as Asian religions, Latino religion, New Age religion, Islam, Native American religion, and social activism. With the contributions of more than 60 authorities in the field--including Paul Harvey, Loyal Jones, Wayne Flynt, and Samuel F. Weber--this volume is an accessibly written, up-to-date reference to religious culture in the American South.

Author : Walter Conser
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813129280

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Southern Crossroads by Walter Conser Pdf

The South has always been one of the most distinctive regions of the United States, with its own set of traditions and a turbulent history. Although often associated with cotton, hearty food, and rich dialects, the South is also noted for its strong sense of religion, which has significantly shaped its history. Dramatic political, social, and economic events have often shaped the development of southern religion, making the nuanced dissection of the religious history of the region a difficult undertaking. For instance, segregation and the subsequent civil rights movement profoundly affected churches in the South as they sought to mesh the tenets of their faith with the prevailing culture. Editors Walter H. Conser and Rodger M. Payne and the book’s contributors place their work firmly in the trend of modern studies of southern religion that analyze cultural changes to gain a better understanding of religion’s place in southern culture now and in the future. Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach that explores the intersection of religion and various aspects of southern life. The volume is organized into three sections, such as “Religious Aspects of Southern Culture,” that deal with a variety of topics, including food, art, literature, violence, ritual, shrines, music, and interactions among religious groups. The authors survey many combinations of religion and culture, with discussions ranging from the effect of Elvis Presley’s music on southern spirituality to yard shrines in Miami to the archaeological record of African American slave religion. The book explores the experiences of immigrant religious groups in the South, also dealing with the reactions of native southerners to the groups arriving in the region. The authors discuss the emergence of religious and cultural acceptance, as well as some of the apparent resistance to this development, as they explore the experiences of Buddhist Americans in the South and Jewish foodways. Southern Crossroads also looks at distinct markers of religious identity and the role they play in gender, politics, ritual, and violence. The authors address issues such as the role of women in Southern Baptist churches and the religious overtones of lynching, with its themes of blood sacrifice and atonement. Southern Crossroads offers valuable insights into how southern religion is studied and how people and congregations evolve and adapt in an age of constant cultural change.

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469616704

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Charles Reagan Wilson Pdf

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice. The 95 entries here represent a substantial revision and expansion of the material on historical memory and manners in the original edition. They address such matters as myths and memories surrounding the Old South and the Civil War; stereotypes and traditions related to the body, sexuality, gender, and family (such as debutante balls and beauty pageants); institutions and places associated with historical memory (such as cemeteries, monuments, and museums); and specific subjects and objects of myths, including the Confederate flag and Graceland. Together, they offer a compelling portrait of the "southern way of life" as it has been imagined, lived, and contested.

Author : Allison Graham,Sharon Monteith
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780807869130

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Allison Graham,Sharon Monteith Pdf

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines how mass media have shaped popular perceptions of the South--and how the South has shaped the history of mass media. An introductory overview by Allison Graham and Sharon Monteith is followed by 40 thematic essays and 132 topical articles that examine major trends and seminal moments in film, television, radio, press, and Internet history. Among topics explored are the southern media boom, beginning with the Christian Broadcast Network and CNN; popular movies, television shows, and periodicals that have shaped ideas about the region, including Gone with the Wind, The Beverly Hillbillies, Roots, and Southern Living; and southern media celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Truman Capote, and Stephen Colbert. The volume details the media's involvement in southern history, from depictions of race in the movies to news coverage of the civil rights movement and Hurricane Katrina. Taken together, these entries reveal and comment on the ways in which mass media have influenced, maintained, and changed the idea of a culturally unique South.

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson,James G. Thomas (Jr.),Ann J. Abadie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cooking
ISBN : UOM:39015074059372

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Foodways by Charles Reagan Wilson,James G. Thomas (Jr.),Ann J. Abadie Pdf

"When the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture was published in 1989, the topic of foodways was relatively new as a field of scholarly inquiry. Food has always been central to southern culture, but the past twenty years have brought an explosion of interest in foodways, particularly in the South. This volume marks the first encyclopedia of the food culture of the American South, surveying the vast diversity of foodways within the region and the collective qualities that make them distinctively southern." "Articles in this volume explore the richness of southern foodways, examining not only what southerners eat but also why they eat it. This book offers a primer on America's foremost regional cuisine, a catalog of cookery that encompasses learned disquisitions on Moon Pies and moonshine, biographies of restaurateurs and food writers, and essays exploring how ethnicity, race, and religion each simultaneously affect and reflect the region's foodways."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820329657

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Judgment and Grace in Dixie by Charles Reagan Wilson Pdf

Religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture in the US, with results that range from portraits of Jesus on black velvet to the soul-stirring orations of Martin Luther King Jr. This work gives an appraisal of religion's influence on such expressions of regional life as literature, music and folk art.

Author : David G. Hackett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 041594273X

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Religion and American Culture by David G. Hackett Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Paul Harvey
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861950

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Redeeming the South by Paul Harvey Pdf

Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped the South. Adopting a biracial and bicultural focus, Paul Harvey works to redefine southern religious history, and by extension southern culture, as the product of such interaction--the result of whites and blacks having drawn from and influenced each other even while remaining separate and distinct. Harvey explores the parallels and divergences of black and white religious institutions as manifested through differences in worship styles, sacred music, and political agendas. He examines the relationship of broad social phenomena like progressivism and modernization to the development of southern religion, focusing on the clash between rural southern folk religious expression and models of spirituality drawn from northern Victorian standards. In tracing the growth of Baptist churches from small outposts of radically democratic plain-folk religion in the mid-eighteenth century to conservative and culturally dominant institutions in the twentieth century, Harvey explores one of the most impressive evolutions of American religious and cultural history.

Author : Paul Harvey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780820355924

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Southern Religion in the World by Paul Harvey Pdf

Religion in the American South emerged as part of a globalized, transnational movement of peoples from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Ironically, it then came to be seen as the most localized, provincial kind of religion in America, one famously hostile to outside ideas, influences, and agitators. Yet southern religious expressions, particularly in music, have exercised enormous intellectual and cultural influence. Despite southern religion's provincialism during the era of evangelical dominance and racial proscriptions, the kinds of expressions coming from the American South have been influential across the globe. With this book Paul Harvey takes up the theme of southern religion in global contexts through a series of biographical vignettes that illustrate its outreach. In the first segment he focuses on Frank Price, the Presbyterian missionary to China and advisor to Chiang Kai-Shek. In the second he focuses on Howard Thurman, the mystic, cosmopolitan, preacher, intellectual, poet, hymnist, and mentor for the American civil rights movement. In the third he looks to the musical figures of Rosetta Tharpe, Johnny Cash, and Levon Helm, whose backbeat, harmonies, and religious enthusiasms contributed to much of the soundtrack of the world through the second half of the twentieth century.