Southern Churches in Crisis [by] Samuel S. Hill
Author | : Samuel S. Hill |
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : Samuel S. Hill |
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : Samuel S. Hill |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Protestant churches |
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Author | : Samuel S. Hill |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817360085 |
Hill’s landmark work in southern religious history returns to print updated and expanded—and compellingly relevant. In 1966, Samuel S. Hill’s Southern Churches in Crisis argued that southern Protestantism, a cornerstone of white southern society and culture, was shirking its moral duty by refusing to join in the fight for racial justice. Hill predicted that the church was risking its standing in southern society and that it would ultimately decline in influence and power. A groundbreaking study at the time, Hill’s book helped establish southern religious history as a field of scholarly inquiry. Three decades later, Southern Churches in Crisis continues to be widely read, quoted, and cited. In Southern Churches in Crisis Revisited, which reprints the 1966 text in full, Hill reexamines his earlier predictions in an introductory essay that also describes how the study of religion in the South has become a major field of scholarly inquiry. Hill skillfully engages his critics by integrating new perspectives and recent scholarship. He suggests new areas for exploration and provides a selected bibliography of key studies in southern religious history published in the three decades subsequent to the original appearance of this groundbreaking work.
Author | : Samuel S. Hill |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820331317 |
In this comparative history of religious life in the South and the North, Samuel Hill considers the religions of America from a unique angle. Tracing the religious history of both areas, this study dramatically shows how a common religion was altered by hostilities and then continued to develop as separate entities until recently. Coming almost full circle, both North and South now find their religions again to be highly similar. Two factors, Hill believes, were major influences in the diversification of the regional religions: the presence of Afro-Americans as an underclass of people with a distinctive role to play in the development of southern religious life, and the presence or absence of a large immigrant population. Hill's overall purpose is to answer the questions: How did there come to be a South (without which there would not have been a North)? Why is the South the heartland of Evangelical Protestantism and a kind of "Bible belt"? What historical developments dispatched the two regions on distinctive courses, religiously and otherwise? How much interaction has there been between the religious institutions of the two regions? How similar and divergent have the cultural patterns, styles, and values been in "the South" and "the North"?
Author | : Glenn Feldman |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2001-10-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0817311025 |
This collection of essays examines the contributions of some of the most notable interpreters of American southern history and culture. The volume includes 18 chapters on such notable historians as John Hope Franklin, Anne Firor Scott and W.J. Cash.
Author | : Samuel S. Hill |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780820317922 |
of these groups as they have sloughed off old patterns, conventions, and constraints in their neverending searches for systems of belief and modes of expression that better embody their convictions and fit their socioeconomic situations. Throughout One Name but Several Faces, Hill turns again and again to the interrelated themes of freedom, creativity, and discontinuity that emerge from the major transitions of southern religious history: the toppling of the old.
Author | : Andrew S. Moore |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2007-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807135739 |
In The South's Tolerable Alien, Andrew S. Moore probes the role of Catholics in the post--World War II South and argues persuasively that, until the 1960s, religion rivaled race as a boundary separating residents of the Bible Belt. Delving deep into underutilized diocesan archives, he explores the ways in which southern Catholics worked to be both good Catholics and good southerners in a region largely defined by Protestant denominations, and explains how the burgeoning civil rights movement ultimately breached these religious barriers. With religious intolerance integral to southern Protestant identity, anti-Catholicism persisted longer in the South than in any other part of the country. Yet despite the prejudices against them, southern Catholics refused to shrink from public view, creating a separate subculture to sustain their religious identity as they marked out public sacred space from which they could engage their critics. Moore describes in detail the Catholics' civic displays and public rituals -- including the diocese of Mobile-Birmingham's annual Christ the King celebrations, which featured downtown parades of over 25,000 people. More than mere assertions of their presence, these pageants provided Catholics with opportunities to craft a secular identity within the American mainstream. As Moore maintains, the rise of the civil rights movement slowly diminished religious tension among white southerners as violent confrontations in Selma and Birmingham forced Catholics, as well as others, to take a stand. Once the civil rights movement was in full swing, either support for or opposition to racial desegregation became paramount and contributed to social and political realignments along racial lines instead of religious ones. Comparing the responses to the struggle to end Jim Crow among dioceses, Moore finds that, among Catholics, there was no simple liberal/conservative dichotomy. Instead, he argues that, in the South, the civil rights movement was more important than the Second Vatican Council in reshaping the social and political stances of the Catholic Church. By describing the relationship between Catholics and Protestants in the South from a Catholic perspective, Moore demonstrates that, despite the persistence of anti-Catholicism throughout this period, white Protestants were gradually coming to terms with the modern South's religious pluralism. With The South's Tolerable Alien, Moore offers the first serious analysis of southern Catholicism outside of Louisiana and makes an enormous contribution to the study of southern religion.
Author | : Samuel Claude Shepherd |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2001-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817310762 |
The first thorough study of organized mainline churches in a major southern American city during the early 20th century
Author | : Charles Reagan Wilson |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780820329659 |
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 | : Corrie Norman (E.) |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781572333611 |
Religion has always been crucial to the cultural identity of the South. Religion in the Contemporary South is the first book to fully address the emerging religious pluralism in the South today.