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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is enlivened by a rich trove of primary sources: diaries, sermons, personal correspondence, published works, and unpublished memoirs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.