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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808770603321

Titolo

Varieties of southern religious history : essays in honor of Donald G. Mathews / / edited by Regina D. Sullivan and Monte Harrell Hampton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

277.5

Soggetti

Southern States Church history

Southern States Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Historian of "Humble Access"; "The Greatest Curiosity": Race, Religion, and Politics in Henry Evans's Methodist Church, 1785-1858; Strangers in a Wilderness: Lorenzo Dow and John Taylor on the Religious Frontiers of the Early American Republic; "Taking Up" Quaker Slaves: The Origins of America's Slavery Imperative; Presbyterian Orthodoxy and the Dilemma of Pluralism: The Battle over Kentucky's Transylvania University, 1800-1830; Nat Turner and Signs of the Apocalypse

Kentucky in Bloomsbury: Henrietta Bingham, Black Culture, and the Southern Gothic in Jazz Age London Nationalism, Marxism, and the Christian Reformed Church in Cuba; Preachers and Politics: The Religious Issue in the North Carolina Presidential Campaign of 1960-A Footnote on Al Smith; APPENDIX A: Dissertations Directed; APPENDIX B: Select Bibliography of Donald G. Mathews's Writings, 1965-2015; Contributors; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Essays from former students of Donald G. Mathews on topics in southern religious history