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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818202903321

Titolo

Recovering the margins of American religious history [[electronic resource] ] : the legacy of David Edwin Harrell, Jr. / / edited by B. Dwain Waldrep and Scott Billingsley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8173-8609-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 p.)

Collana

Religion and american culture

Altri autori (Persone)

WaldrepB. Dwain

BillingsleyScott <1968->

Disciplina

286.6092

Soggetti

Churches of Christ - History

Protestant churches - United States - History

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

David Edwin Harrell, Jr. : American religious historian / Samuel S. Hill -- Elijah's never-failing cruse of oil : David Harrell and the historiography of America's Pentecostals / James R. Goff, Jr. -- David Edwin Harrell, Jr. and the history of the Stone-Campbell tradition / Richard T. Hughes -- David Edwin Harrell, Jr. and the broadening of Southern religious studies / Charles Reagan Wilson -- The Midas touch : Kenneth E. Hagin and the Prosperity Gospel / Scott Billingsley -- Rock fights, quarantines, and confessionals : B.C. Goodpasture, The gospel advocate, and keeping order in Churches of Christ / John C. Hardin -- Northern millenarian fundamentalism in the South, 1900-1950 / B. Dwain Waldrep -- Conclusion : the very civil convictions of Ed Harrell / Beth Barton Schweiger.

Sommario/riassunto

Recovering the Margins of American Religious History, a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together essays from Harrell's colleagues, peers, and students that explore his impact and legacy in the field of American religious studies. Raised in an upper-class family in mid-twentieth-century Jacksonville, Florida, Harrell's membership in the Church of Christ helped establish his sense of self as a spiritual outsider. This early exclusion from the Christian mainstream laid a foundation for Harrell's pioneering studies of



marginalized faiths, inclu