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Hope's Promise
Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry
University of Alabama Press
A fresh perspective on the interaction of religious ideals and social change in rural settlements of the Moravian colony of Wachovia.
Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules
A History of the Episcopal Church in Alabama
University of Alabama Press
Tells the story of how the Episcopal Church gained influence over Alabama’s cultural, political, and economic arenas despite being a denominational minority in the state
The Life of Selina Campbell
A Fellow Soldier in the Cause of Restoration
University of Alabama Press
This first biography of Selina Campbell opens a window onto the experience of women in one of the most dynamic religious groups of 19th-century America
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross
Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Old South
University of Alabama Press
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross examines the complex and often overlooked relationships between Catholics and Protestants in the antebellum South.
Getting Right With God
Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995
By Mark Newman
University of Alabama Press
This groundbreaking study finds Southern Baptists more diverse in their attitudes toward segregation than previously assumed
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
Edited by Keith Harper; Introduction by Keith Harper
University of Alabama Press
Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.
Recovering the Margins of American Religious History
The Legacy of David Edwin Harrell Jr.
University of Alabama Press
Recovering the Margins of American Religious History, a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together essays from Harrell’s colleagues, peers, and students that explore his impact and legacy in the field of American religious studies.
The Poisoned Chalice
Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism
University of Alabama Press
Examines the introduction of grape juice into the celebration of Holy Communion in the late 19th century Methodist Episcopal Church and reveals how a 1,800-year-old practice of using fermented communion wine became theologically incomprehensible in a mere forty years
The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home
Explorations in North American Cultural History
Edited by Daniel H Bays and Grant Wacker
University of Alabama Press
This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways.
To Save My Race from Abuse
The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius
University of Alabama Press
The story of a fascinating and important figure in black American religious history
In Africa's Forest and Jungle
Six Years Among the Yorubas
University of Alabama Press
In Africa’s Forest and Jungle is the memoir of Richard Henry Stone, a Civil War era Southern Baptist missionary, who served in what is now Nigeria during the late 1850s and again during the first years of the American Civil War. Stone published this work in 1899, when it became clear that age would prevent him from returning to Africa.Stone served in Africa with his wife and successfully learned the Yoruba language. He was an intelligent, self–reflective, and reliable observer, making his works important sources of information on Yoruba society before the intervention of European colonialism. In Africa’s Forest and Jungle is a rare account of West African culture, made all the more complete by the additional journal entries, letters, and photographs collected in this edition.
Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order
The English Churches in the Delaware Valley
By Jon Butler; Foreword by Keith Harper
University of Alabama Press
This new edition and update of the seminal study, Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order, questions the assumption that colonial American churches were seedbeds of democratic sentiment merely awaiting the American Revolution to cast off the shackles of both political and religious domination.
Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land
Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism
University of Alabama Press
The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalism
A New Vision for Missions
William Cameron Townsend, The Wycliffe Bible Translators, and the Culture of Early Evangelical Faith Missions, 1917-1945
University of Alabama Press
A deep biography of the pioneering missionary William Cameron Townsend
American Denominational History
Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future
Edited by Keith Harper
University of Alabama Press
Brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature
It's a New Day
Race and Gender in the Modern Charismatic Movement
University of Alabama Press
Examines how popular American religious leaders navigate problems of race and gender in society
Uplifting the People
Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama
University of Alabama Press
Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention—its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders.
In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx
Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice
University of Alabama Press
This absorbing and insightful biography illuminates the life of the controversial champion of the Social Gospel in early-20th-century America.
Sing Them Over Again to Me
Hymns and Hymnbooks in America
Edited by Mark A. Noll and Edith L. Blumhofer
University of Alabama Press
Hymns and hymnbooks as American historical and cultural icons.
Alabama Baptists
Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie
By Wayne Flynt
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
The definitive history of the dominant religious group within the state during the last two centuries
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