Bishops, Bourbons, and big mules : a history of the Episcopal Church in Alabama

Vaughn, J. Barry, 1955- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780817318116
ISBN: 0817318119
Physical Description: xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

How Anglicanism Came to America -- "No gentleman would choose any but the Episcopalian way": From the Beginning to the 1850s -- "This worldliness that is rushing upon us like a flood": Secession and Civil War -- "How is the South like Lazarus?": Reconstruction -- The Age of "Dread-Naughts and Sky-Scrapers": The End of the Nineteenth Century and the Beginning of the Twentieth -- "Great and untried experiments": From the 1920s to the 1950s -- "The Carpenter of Birmingham must not be allowed to forever deny the Carpenter of Nazareth": The Civil Rights Era -- "O thou who changest not ... ": From 1968 to the Present -- "Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required" -- Episcopal Churches in Alabama in Chronological Order -- Bishops of the Diocese of Alabama and the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast -- Membership of the Episcopal Church and US Population at Ten-Year Intervals from 1830 to 2010 -- Episcopal Church Membership and Population of Alabama from 1830 to 2010 -- Percentage of Alabamians Twenty-Five Years Old and Older with Four or More Years of Postsecondary Education from 1950 to 2010.