Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925 Contributor(s): Harvey, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807846341 ISBN-13: 9780807846346 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $40.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1997 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Baptist - Religion | History - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
Dewey: 286.175 |
LCCN: 96032882 |
Lexile Measure: 1510 |
Series: Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.11" W x 9.14" (1.17 lbs) 344 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Harvey, Paul: - Paul Harvey is professor of history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. |