Religion

 edited by Samuel S. Hill

 

“For well-researched articles by well respected scholars of the ‘religious South,’ this is now the place to begin. The editing, the expertise, and the expositions are all first rate.”

                        — Mark A. Noll, author of             The Civil War as a Theological Crisis

“Both in specific entries and as a whole, this encyclopedic guide to religion in the American South will be exceptionally useful to specialists, students, and lay people alike.... This new format for the Encyclopedia is welcome indeed!”

      — Donald G. Matthews, Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early 19th century. Even as the conservative Protestant typically associated with the South has risen in social and political prominence throughout the United States in recent decades, however, religious culture in the South itself has grown increasingly diverse. The region has seen a surge of immigration from other parts of the United States as well as from Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, bringing increased visibility to Catholicism, Islam, and Asian religions in the once solidly Protestant Christian South.

In this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, contributors have revised entries from the original Encyclopedia on topics ranging from religious broadcasting to snake handling and added new entries on such topics as Asian religions, Latino religion, New Age religion, Islam, Native American religion, and social activism. With the contributions of more than 60 authorities in the field—including Paul Harvey, Loyal Jones, Wayne Flynt, and Samuel F. Weber—this volume is an accessibly written, up-to-date reference to religious culture in the American South.

Samuel S. Hill is professor emeritus of religion at the University of Florida. He is author of Southern Churches in Crisis and the Encyclopedia of Religion in the South

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

          • Appalachian Religion
          • Architecture, Church
          • Asian Religions
          • Broadcasting, Religious
          • Calvinism
          • Churches, Country
          • Civil Rights and Religion
          • Diversity, Religious
          • Ethnic Protestantism
          • Folk Religion
          • Frontier Religion
          • Fundamentalism
          • Islam
          • Jewish Religious Life
          • Latino Religion
          • Literature and Religion
          • Missionary Activities
          • Modernism and Religion
          • Native American Religion
          • New Age Religion
          • Pentecostalism
          • Politics and Religion
          • Preacher, Black Folk
          • Preacher, White
          • Protestantism
          • Religion, Black
          • Restorationist Christianity
          • Revivalism
          • Roman Catholicism
          • Social Activism
          • Spirituality
          • Sports and Religion
          • Theological Orthodoxy
          • Urban Religion
          • Women and Religion
          • Zion, South as
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  • African Methodist Episcopal Churches
  • Asbury, Francis
  • Bible Belt
  • Blue Laws
  • Campbell, Alexander
  • Campbell, Will D.
  • Camps and Retreats
  • Cannon, James Jr.
  • Christian Broadcasting Network
  • Dabbs, James McBride
  • England, John
  • Falwell, Jerry
  • Fatalism
  • Graham, Billy
  • Great Revival
  • Hays, Brooks
  • King, Martin Luther Jr.
  • Merton, Thomas
  • Methodist Episcopal Church, South
  • Moon, Charlotte Digges “Lottie”
  • Moral Majority
  • Moravians
  • National Baptists
  • O’Connor and Religion
  • Presbyterian Church in the United States
  • Prohibition
  • Protestant Episcopal Church
  • Roberts, Oral
  • Sacred Places
  • Serpent Handlers
  • Shakers
  • Southern Baptist Convention
  • Sunday Schools
  • Thornwell, James Henley