| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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New Encyclopedia of Southern culture |
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New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; 1.
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| Contents |
General Introduction; Introduction; 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 |
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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 |
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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; Index of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
One of a series of volumes that build upon the original 24 subject categories used in the Encyclopedia of Southern culture, originally published in 1989 |
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"Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Christianity -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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Christianity
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Religion
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| SUBJECT |
Southern States -- Religion -- Encyclopedias
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Southern States -- Religious life and customs -- Encyclopedias
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| Subject |
Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
encyclopedias.
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Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedias.
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Encyclopédies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hill, Samuel S., editor.
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Wilson, Charles Reagan, editor.
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Thomas, James G., Jr., editor.
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Abadie, Ann J., editor.
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University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
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| ISBN |
9780807877166 |
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0807877166 |
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9781469616575 |
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1469616572 |
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