Varieties of Southern Religious History

Essays in Honor of Donald G. Mathews

Regina D. Sullivan, Monte Harrell Hampton, Regina D. Sullivan, Monte Harrell Hampton

• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781611174892
• Thema: Theology & Religion
• Thema: History of Religion

Essays from former students of Donald G. Mathews on topics in Southern religion

Comprising essays written by former students of Donald G. Mathews, a distinguished historian of religion in the South, Varieties of Southern Religious History offers rich insight into the social and cultural history of the United States. Fifteen essays, edited by Regina D. Sullivan and Monte Harrell Hampton, offer fresh and insightful interpretations in the fields of U. S. religious history, women's history, and African American history from the colonial era to the twentieth century. Emerging scholars as well as established authors examine a range of topics on the cultural and social history of the South and the religious history of the United States.

Essays on new topics include a consideration of Kentucky Presbyterians and their reaction to the rising pluralism of the early nineteenth century. Gerald Wilson offers an analysis of anti-Catholic bias in North Carolina during the twentieth century, and Mary Frederickson examines the rhetoric of death in contemporary correspondence. There are also reinterpretations of subjects such as late-eighteenth-century Ohio Valley missionaries Lorenzo and Peggy Dow, a recontextualization of Millerism, and new scholarship on the appeal of spiritualism in the South.

Historians of U.S. women examine how individuals struggled with gender conventions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Robert Martin and Cheryl Junk, touching on how women struggled with the gender convictions, discuss Anne Wittenmyer and Frances Bumpass, respectively, demonstrating how religious ideology both provided space for these women to move into new roles and yet limited their activities to specific realms. Emily Bingham offers a study of how her forebear Henrietta Bingham challenged gender roles in the early twentieth century.

Historians of African American history offer provocative revisions of key topics. Larry Tise explores the complex religious, social, and political issues faced by late-eighteenth-century slaveholding Quakers. Monte Hampton traces the transition of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina, from a biracial congregation to an all-black church by 1835. Wayne Durrill and Thomas Mainwaring present reinterpretations of well-studied subjects: the Nat Turner rebellion and the Underground Railroad.

This collection provides fresh insight into a variety of topics in honor of Donald G. Mathews and his legacy as a scholar of southern religion.

Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below

Abernathy, Ralph

abolitionists

“Abolitionists on Slavery: The Critique behind the Social Movement” (Mathews)

“Across Space and Time: Conversion, Community and Cultural Change among South Carolina Slaves” (Strickland)

Adams, Franklin P.

Adams, John

Adventism

African American churches, attacks on

African American music; popularity in the mid-1920s

African Americans; assembly for religious purposes

in casts of Broadway productions

equality and

escape from slavery

escape to Canada

“Jim Crow” laws

in London

modern Christianity and

oral tradition of

role as entertainers

securing freedom of thousands of slaves

African Meeting House

Agitation for Freedom: The Abolitionists (edited by Mathews)

alcohol abuse; in nineteenth-century society

Alexander, Archibald

Allegheny College

Allport, Gordon W., The Nature of Prejudice

Alonso, Angel Vicente Izquierdo (Izquierdo)

“Altar Principal” (Palmer)

Amazon.com

America

America: slavery imperative and

America, early history of; John Taylor and

Lorenzo Dow and

religious frontiers of

religious tumult in

American Missionary Association (AMA)

first black school in Liberty county

American pluralism

American Political Science Association

American Revolution

American Unitarianism (Belsham)

American’s slavery imperative

Amherst College

Andover Seminary

anti-Catholicism

Andrus, Leman

Anglican Church

animal magnetism

Anselm, medieval theology of

anti-Catholicism

Andover Seminary

Kennedy, John F. and

Niijima Jō and

antislavery message

apocalypse: in African American religion

signs of

Appleseed, Johnny

Applewhite, Marshall Herff

Arianism

Arinori, Mori

Arminians

Arrington, William Jr.

Asbury, Francis

Atlantic Monthly

Atwood, Anna

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky (Ringgold)

Baird, Robert, Religion in America

Baker, Josephine

Bank of Kentucky

Bankhead, Tallulah

Baptism

Baptist Missionary Magazine

Baptist of North Carolina

Baptists

accusations and factions in church

adult immersion and

African American

excommunication and

John Taylor and

local churches and

localism and

marriage and fellowship

non-Baptists and

other Christians and

selection of preachers by vote

Barlow, Philip L.

Barr, Ward V.

Barringer, Thomas

Barry, William T.

Bates, Joseph

Batista, Fulgencio

Bay of Pigs

Becker, Ernest

concept of the denial of death

The Denial of Death

human nature and religion

“immortality system”

Becker, James M., “Was Randolph-Macon Different? Revivalism, Sectionalism, and the Academic Tradition: The Met...