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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452029703321

Titolo

Religion [[electronic resource] /] / Samuel S. Hill, volume editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2006

ISBN

1-4696-1657-2

0-8078-7716-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) : illustrations

Collana

New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

HillSamuel S

Disciplina

975

975.003

Soggetti

Christianity - Southern States

Electronic books.

Southern States Religion Encyclopedias

Southern States Religious life and customs Encyclopedias

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

One of a series of volumes that build upon the original 24 subject categories used in the Encyclopedia of Southern culture, first published in 1991.

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

RevivalismRoman 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 BaptistsO'Connor and Religion; Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS); Prohibition; Protestant Episcopal Church; Roberts, Oral; Sacred Places; Serpent Handlers; Shakers; Southern Baptist Convention; Sunday Schools; Thornwell, James Henley.

Sommario/riassunto

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 C