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Dixie Heretic
The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy
University of Alabama Press
A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy
Pulpits of the Lost Cause
The Faith and Politics of Former Confederate Chaplains during Reconstruction
University of Alabama Press
Compares the faith and politics of former Confederate chaplains during the Reconstruction period, and argues for some counterintuitive understandings of their beliefs and practices in the post-war period
To Do Justice
The Civil Rights Ministry of Reverend Robert E. Hughes
University of Alabama Press
Biography of a civil rights activist who worked tirelessly at the heart of two social and political revolutions
Evangelical News
Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s
University of Alabama Press
A comprehensive study of evangelical magazine discourse during the 1970s and 1980s and how it navigated and sustained religious convictions in a time of dramatic social change
Richmond's Priests and Prophets
Race, Religion, and Social Change in the Civil Rights Era
University of Alabama Press
Explores the ways in which white Christian leaders in Richmond, Virginia navigated the shifting legal and political battles around desegregation even as members of their congregations struggled with their own understanding of a segregated society
Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him
Radical Holiness Theology and Gender in the South
University of Alabama Press
Examines how religious belief reshaped concepts of gender during the New South period that took place from 1877 to 1915 in ways that continue to manifest today
Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century
University of Alabama Press
Essays by the distinguished historian of southern religion Wayne Flynt, that illuminate the often overlooked complexity among southern Protestants
Revolution as Reformation
Protestant Faith in the Age of Revolutions, 1688–1832
Edited by Peter C. Messer and William Harrison Taylor
University of Alabama Press
Essays that explore how Protestants responded to the opportunities and perils of revolution in the transatlantic age
Southern Churches in Crisis Revisited
University of Alabama Press
Hill’s landmark work in southern religious history returns to print updated and expanded – and compellingly relevant
Home without Walls
Southern Baptist Women and Social Reform in the Progressive Era
University of Alabama Press
A critical examination of the Woman’s Missionary Union and how it shaped the views of Southern Baptist women
Between Dixie and Zion
Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel
University of Alabama Press
Explores the roots of evangelical Christian support for Israel through an examination of the Southern Baptist Convention
Family Matters
James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home
University of Alabama Press
The first full-length study of a pivotal figure in American evangelical faith
Isaac Taylor Tichenor
The Creation of the Baptist New South
University of Alabama Press
The influential role Tichenor played in shaping both the Baptist denomination and southern culture
Doctrine and Race
African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars
University of Alabama Press
Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.
Unity in Christ and Country
American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801
University of Alabama Press
Examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801
Unitarianism in the Antebellum South
The Other Invisible Institution
University of Alabama Press
Macaulay challenges the prevailing belief that religion in the south developed solely through "revivalistic emotion" and not by religious rationalism.
Avenues of Faith
Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900–1929
University of Alabama Press
The first thorough study of organized mainline churches in a major southern American city during the early 20th century
Show Us How You Do It
Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968
University of Alabama Press
A major figure in southern black restorationist church history
Storm of Words
Science, Religion, and Evolution in the Civil War Era
University of Alabama Press
A study of the ways that southern Presbyterians in the wake of the Civil War contended with a host of cultural and theological questions
The Woman I Am
Southern Baptist Women's Writings, 1906–2006
University of Alabama Press
Melody Maxwell’s The Woman I Am analyzes the traditional, progressive, and potential roles female Southern Baptist writers and editors portrayed for Southern Baptist women from 1906 to 2006, particularly in the area of missions.
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
Sources of Division in the Disciples of Christ, 1865-1900
A Social History of the Disciples of Christ, Volume 2
University of Alabama Press
The definitive social history of the Disciples of Christ in the 19th century
Quest for a Christian America, 1800–1865
A Social History of the Disciples of Christ, Volume 1
University of Alabama Press
The definitive social history of the Disciples of Christ in the 19th century
Uneasy in Babylon
Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture
University of Alabama Press
The first book-length interpretation of the new conservative leaders of America's largest Protestant denomination
At Ease in Zion
Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865-1900
By Rufus B. Spain; Foreword by Samuel S. Hill
University of Alabama Press
Analyzes the Southern Baptist denomination’s influence on southern culture during the 19th century
The Churches of Christ in the 20th Century
Homer Hailey's Personal Journey of Faith
University of Alabama Press
Religion, Education and the American Experience
Reflections on Religion and the American Public Life
Edited by Edith L. Blumhofer; Introduction by Martin E. Marty
University of Alabama Press
This collection of provocative and timely essays addresses the ways in which religious and educational institutions have come to define one another and American culture and identity.
Religion, Politics and the American Experience
Reflections on Religion and American Public Life
University of Alabama Press
This challenging collection of essays offers a refreshing approach to the troubling–and timely–subject of religion and public policy in American, and the ways in which issues of church and state affect our national identity.
A Fire You Can't Put Out
The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
University of Alabama Press
This first biography of Fred Shuttlesworth-winner of both the 2000 Lillian Smith Award and the 2001 James F. Sulzby Jr. Award-details the fascinating life of the controversial preacher who led integration efforts in Birmingham with the courage and fervor of a religious crusader.
Wrestlin' Jacob
A Portrait of Religion in Antebellum Georgia and the Carolina Low Country
University of Alabama Press
An important introduction to the efforts of whites to evangelize African Americans in the antebellum South
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