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Combining institutional history and biography, this text shows how the story of the Churches of Christ, a nondenominational movement of autonomous congregations, is reflected by Homer Hailey, a preacher, whose life puts into perspective the personal journeys travelled by members in the 20th-century

Traces the life and career of an admirable and lesser-known civil rights figure who fought injustice on two continents. This account presents valuable new evidence about the civil rights movement in the United States as well as human rights and liberation issues in colonial Southern Rhodesia in the years leading up to independence and self-rule.

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. Grounded in expansive research, Chapell's writing is enlivened by a rich trove of primary sources: diaries, sermons, personal correspondence, published works, and unpublished memoirs.

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.

Throughout its dramatic history, the American South has wrestled with issues such as poverty, social change, labor reform, civil rights, and party politics, and Wayne Flynt's writing reaffirms religion as the lens through which southerners understand and attempt to answer these contentious questions.

Highlights the role that Protestantism played in shaping both individual and collective responses to revolution. These essays explore the ways that the Protestant tradition, rooted in a perpetual process of recalibration and reformulation, provided the lens through which Protestants understood social and political change in the Age of Revolutions.

Explores the roots of evangelical Christian support for Israel through an examination of the Southern Baptist Convention. The explores how Southern Baptists engaged what was called the "Palestine question" whether Jews or Arabs would, or should, control the Holy Land after World War I.

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 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.

Tells the history of the dominant religious group within the state during the last two centuries.

Women clergy now account for approximately 10 percent of religious leaders in the United States. As their numbers grow, so too does their political influence. This book examines the effects of gender, professional experience, and religious belief on the political attitudes and activism of clergywomen.

In 1966, Samuel Hill's Southern Churches in Crisis argued that southern Protestantism, a cornerstone of white southern society and culture, was shirking its moral duty by refusing to join in the fight for racial justice. His landmark work now returns to print updated and expanded - and compellingly relevant.

Marshall Keeble (1878-1968) was an evangelist in black Churches of Christ from 1931 until his death in 1968. This book offers a study of Keeble and his career. It reconstructs the life, public ministry, missionary activities, and reception of Keeble among Churches of Christ. It also details Keeble's relationship with white businessmen.

Shows how the social attitudes of women were shaped during the Progressive era. By studying primary documents, Carol Crawford Holcomb uncovers ample evidence that WMU leaders, aware of the social gospel and sympathetic to social reform, appropriated the tools of social work and social service to carry out their missionary work.

Offers an insightful history and analysis of James Dobson's rise to fame, his effect on American evangelical culture, and subsequent descent from relevance. Extensively researched, Lovdal Stephens has scoured through Dobson's books, articles, and other materials in order to explore how evangelicals defined and defended the traditional family.

A full-length study of the influential role Tichenor played in shaping both the Baptist denomination and southern culture. Michael E. Williams provides a comprehensive analysis of Tichenor's life, examining the overall impact of his life and work. This volume also documents the methodologies Tichenor used to rally Southern Baptist support around its struggling Home Mission Board.

Examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century. By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism, this study demonstrates that African American Protestants were acutely aware of the manner in which white Christianity operated and how they could use that knowledge to justify social change.

In this compelling account, William Harrison Taylor examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801 to highlight the church's ambitious agenda of fostering and uniting a host of New World values, among them Christendom, nationalism, and territorial exceptionalism.

Presents a compelling study of religious leaders' impact on the political progression of Richmond, Virginia, during the time of desegregation. Scrutinizing this city as an entry point into white Christians' struggles with segregation during the 1950s, Douglas E. Thompson analyses the internal tensions between ministers, the members of their churches, and an evolving world.

This text is based on extensive interviews with the most important Southern Baptist conservatives who have wrested control of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) away from moderates. They advocate a return to traditional values throughout the country.