{"product_id":"southern-religion-and-christian-diversity-in-the-twentieth-century-paperback-softback-9780817360221","title":"Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817360221","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSouthern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWayne Flynt (Author), Charles A. Israel (Foreword by), John Giggie (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817360221\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 25 May 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e400 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.615 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOverall, scholars of the South in the 1920s and 1930s, particularly, will find detailed narratives that add depth to the scholarship of this period. Readers of this journal interested in Alabama history and the intersection of Progressive reform and religion would benefit from many of these essays, as would historians of evangelical religion and its increasing politicization since the rights movements of the late 1950s and 1960s.\" - \u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Who better to write a book on southern evangelical religion than Dr. J. Wayne Flynt? This award-winning Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Auburn University, Baptist minister, and Sunday school teacher extraordinaire has devoted most of his professional life to this study. Now, readers have the opportunity to see wisdom, wit, and a wealth of information bundled together in a collection of some fifteen essays, written over the span of nearly fifty years.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Alabama Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSouthern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e is a splendid retrospective of a great scholar’s career. Flynt dismantles generalizations, shows individual complexity, and, as the title suggests, reveals ‘diversity,’ as well as any scholar I know.\" - Paul Harvey, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eRedeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Flynt is one of the top scholars of southern religion, and his collected essays constitute an important contribution to the field. Always clearly written, solidly researched, and analytically vigorous, they represent a fine scholar working at the top of his form. This book should be on the mandatory reading list of anyone wishing to understand the nature of southern religion.\" - John B. Boles, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Revival, 1787-1805: The Origins of the Southern Evangelical Mind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe South Through Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of fifteen essays by award-winning scholar Wayne Flynt that explores and reveals the often-forgotten religious heterogeneity of the American South.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Throughout its dramatic history, the American South has wrestled with issues such as poverty, social change, labor reform, civil rights, and party politics, and Flynt’s writing reaffirms religion as the lens through which southerners understand and attempt to answer these contentious questions. In \u003ci\u003eSouthern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, however, Flynt gently but persuasively dispels the myth—comforting to some and dismaying to others—of religion in the South as an inert cairn of reactionary conservatism.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Flynt introduces a wealth of stories about individuals and communities of faith whose beliefs and actions map the South’s web of theological fault lines. In the early twentieth century, North Carolinian pastor Alexander McKelway became a relentless crusader against the common practice of child labor. In 1972, Rev. Dr. Ruby Kile, in a time of segregated churches led by men, took the helm of the eight-member Powderly Faith Deliverance Center in Jefferson County, Alabama and built the fledgling group into a robust congregation with more than 700 black and white worshippers. Flynt also examines the role of religion in numerous pivotal court cases, such as the US Supreme Court school prayer case \u003ci\u003eEngel v. Vitale\u003c\/i\u003e, whose majority opinion was penned by Justice Hugo Black, an Alabamian. These fascinating case studies and many more illuminate a religious landscape of far more varied texture and complexity than is commonly believed.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century \u003c\/i\u003eoffers much to readers and scholars interested in the South, religion, and theology. Writing with his hallmark wit, warmth, and erudition, Flynt’s \u003ci\u003eSouthern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital record of gospel-inspired southerners whose stories revivify sclerotic assumptions about the narrow conformity of southern Christians.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword by Charles A. Israel and John M. Giggie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Growing Up Baptist in Anniston, Alabama: The Legacy of the Reverend Charles R. Bell Jr.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Dissent in Zion: Alabama Baptists and Social Issues, 1900-1914\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Alabama Methodists and the Social Gospel, 1900-1930\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Organized Labor, Reform, and Alabama Politics, 1920\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Religion in the Urban South: The Divided Religious Mind of Birmingham, 1900-1930\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. \"\u003cbr\u003eFeeding the Hungry and Ministering to the Broken Hearted\"\u003cbr\u003e: The Presbyterian Church in the United States and the Social Gospel, 1900-1920\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. Southern Baptists and Appalachia: A Case Study of Modernization and Community\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Religion at the Polls: A Case Study of Twentieth-Century Politics and Religion in Florida\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. One in the Spirit, Many in the Flesh: Southern Evangelicals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. Women, Society, and the Southern Church, 1900-1920\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11. \"\u003cbr\u003eA Special Feeling of Closeness\"\u003cbr\u003e: Mt. Hebron Baptist Church, Leeds, Alabama\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12. Religion for the Blues: Evangelicalism, Poor Whites, and the Great Depression\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13. Conflicted Interpretations of Christ, the Church, and the American Constitution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14. The South'\u003cbr\u003es Battle over God\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15. God'\u003cbr\u003es Politics: Is Southern Religion Blue, Red, or Purple?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWayne Flynt'\u003cbr\u003es Works about Southern Religion Published in Books, Journals, and Anthologies from 1963 to 2011\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574419517720,"sku":"9780817360221","price":21.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/southern-religion-and-christian-diversity-in-the-twentieth-century-paperback-softback-9780817360221","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}