The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Volume 1: Religion

Samuel S. Hill, Charles Reagan Wilson

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN: 9780807856741, 9780807830031
• eBook ISBN: 9780807877166
• Subtopic: North American History

Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century. Even as the conservative Protestantism 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.

The NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA of  SOUTHERN CULTURE

VOLUME 1

Religion

SAMUEL S. HILL, Volume Editor

CHARLES REAGAN WILSON, General Editor

JAMES G. THOMAS JR., Managing Editor

ANN J. ABADIE, Associate Editor

Sponsored by

THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOUTHERN CULTURE

at the University of Mississippi

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS

Chapel Hill

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The new encyclopedia of Southern culture / Charles Reagan
Wilson, general editor ; James G. Thomas Jr., managing editor ;
Ann J. Abadie, associate editor.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: Encyclopedia of Southern culture. 1991.
“Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at
the University of Mississippi.”
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: — v. 1. Religion.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3003-1 (cloth : v. 1 : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8078-3003-8 (cloth : v. 1 : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5674-1 (pbk. : v. 1 : alk.paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8087-5674-6 (pbk. : v. 1 : alk. paper)
1. Southern States—Civilization—Encyclopedias. 2. Southern
States—Encyclopedias. I. Wilson, Charles Reagan. II. Thomas,
James G. III. Abadie, Ann J. IV. University of Mississippi.
Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
V. Encyclopedia of Southern culture.
F209.N47 2006
975.003—dc22
2005024807

The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1989.

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Tell about the South. What it’s like there.
What do they do there. Why do they live there.
Why do they live at all.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Absalom, Absalom!

CONTENTS

• General Introduction
• Introduction

• RELIGION
  
  

• Appalachian Religion
• Architecture, Church
• Asian Religions
• Black Religion
• 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
• Restorationist Christianity
• Revivalism
• Roman Catholicism
• Social Activism
• Spirituality
• Sports and Religion
• Theological Orthodoxy
• Urban Religion
• Women and Religion
• Zion, South as
  
  

• 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 (PCUS)
• Prohibition
• Protestant Ep...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Volume 1: Religion
• Copyright Page
• Epigraph
• CONTENTS
• GENERAL INTRODUCTION
• INTRODUCTION
• RELIGION
• INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX