Religion and Public Life in the South: In the Evangelical Mode / Edition 1

by Mark Silk, Ted Ownby, Lynn Lyerly, Sam Hill, Charles Reagan Wilson

Overview

In July 2002 chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court had a two-ton monument of the Ten Commandments placed into the rotunda of the Montgomery state judicial building. But this action is only a recent case in the long history of religiously inspired public movements in the American South. From the Civil War to the Scopes Trial to the Moral Majority, white Southern evangelicals have taken ideas they see as drawn from the Christian Scriptures and tried to make them into public law. But blacks, women, subregions, and other religious groups too vie for power within and outside this Southern Religious Establishment. Religion and Public Life in the South gives voice to both the establishment and its dissenters and shows why more than any other region of the country, religion drives public debate in the South.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780759106352
Publisher:	AltaMira Press
Publication date:	07/07/2005
Series:	Religion by Region , #6
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Charles Reagan Wilson is professor of history and Southern Studies and director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause 1865-1920, and Judgement and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis. He is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

Mark Silk is associate professor of religion in public life and founding director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College.

Table of Contents

1 Demography 3 Overview: Religion and Southern Public Life 4 The Evangelical Belt 5 African American Religion and Southern Public Life 6 Religious Minorities Living in the Evangelical Belt 7 Southern Civil Religions 8 From Church Women's Clubs to Office Holding 9 Religion and Regions within the South: Appalachia and Peninsular Florida)

Editorial Reviews

Interesting…Summing up: Recommended. Academic programs, particularly in Protestant studies; upper-level undergraduates and above.

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Interesting…Summing up: Recommended. Academic programs, particularly in Protestant studies; upper-level undergraduates and above.

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Interesting…Summing up: Recommended. Academic programs, particularly in Protestant studies; upper-level undergraduates and above.

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