Southern religion and Christian diversity in the twentieth century

Flynt, Wayne, 1940- (author.).

Summary:

Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century is a collection of fifteen essays by award-winning scholar Wayne Flynt that explores and reveals the often-forgotten religious heterogeneity of the American South. -- Amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 9780817319083
ISBN: 0817319085
Physical Description: xii, 386 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Growing up Baptist in Anniston, Alabama : the legacy of the Reverend Charles R. Bell Jr. -- Dissent in Zion : Alabama Baptists and social issues, 1900-1914 -- Alabama Methodists and the social gospel, 1900-1930 -- Organized lrbor, Reform, and Alabama politics, 1920 -- Religion in the urban south : the divided religious mind of Birmingham, 1900-1930 -- "Feeding the hungry and ministering to the broken hearted" the Presbyterian Church in the United States and the social gospel, 1900-1920 -- Southern Baptists and Appalachia : a case study of modernization and community -- Religion at the polls : a case study of twentieth-century politics and religion in Florida -- One in the spirit, many in the flesh : Southern evangelicals -- Women, society, and the Southern church, 1900-1920 -- "A special feeling of closeness" : Mt. Hebron Baptist Church, Leeds, Alabama -- Religion for the blues : evangelicalism, poor whites, and the great depression -- Conflicted interpretations of Christ, the church, and the American Constitution -- The South's battle over God -- God's politics : is Southern religion blue, red, or purple?