Varieties of Southern Religious History: Essays in Honor of Donald G. Mathews
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Varieties of Southern Religious History: Essays in Honor of Donald G. Mathews
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Overview
Comprising essays written by former students of Donald G. Mathews, a distinguished historian of religion in the South, Varieties of Southern Religious History offers rich insight into the social and cultural history of the United States. Fifteen essays, edited by Regina D. Sullivan and Monte Harrell Hampton, offer fresh and insightful interpretations in the fields of U. S. religious history, women's history, and African American history from the colonial era to the twentieth century. Emerging scholars as well as established authors examine a range of topics on the cultural and social history of the South and the religious history of the United States.
Essays on new topics include a consideration of Kentucky Presbyterians and their reaction to the rising pluralism of the early nineteenth century. Gerald Wilson offers an analysis of anti-Catholic bias in North Carolina during the twentieth century, and Mary Frederickson examines the rhetoric of death in contemporary correspondence. There are also reinterpretations of subjects such as late-eighteenth-century Ohio Valley missionaries Lorenzo and Peggy Dow, a recontextualization of Millerism, and new scholarship on the appeal of spiritualism in the South.
Historians of U.S. women examine how individuals struggled with gender conventions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Robert Martin and Cheryl Junk, touching on how women struggled with the gender convictions, discuss Anne Wittenmyer and Frances Bumpass, respectively, demonstrating how religious ideology both provided space for these women to move into new roles and yet limited their activities to specific realms. Emily Bingham offers a study of how her forebear Henrietta Bingham challenged gender roles in the early twentieth century.
Historians of African American history offer provocative revisions of key topics. Larry Tise explores the complex religious, social, and political issues faced by late-eighteenth-century slaveholding Quakers. Monte Hampton traces the transition of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina, from a biracial congregation to an all-black church by 1835. Wayne Durrill and Thomas Mainwaring present reinterpretations of well-studied subjects: the Nat Turner rebellion and the Underground Railroad.
This collection provides fresh insight into a variety of topics in honor of Donald G. Mathews and his legacy as a scholar of southern religion.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781611174885 |
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| Publisher: | University of South Carolina Press |
| Publication date: | 05/22/2015 |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: A Historian of "Humble Access" 1
"The Greatest Curiosity": Race, Religion, and Politics in Henry Evans's Methodist Church, 1785-1858 Monte Harrell Hampton 9
Strangers in a Wilderness: Lorenzo Dow and John Taylor on the Religious Frontiers of the Early American Republic Philip N. Mulder 22
"Taking Up" Quaker Slaves: The Origins of America's Slavery Imperative Larry E. Tise 35
Presbyterian Orthodoxy and the Dilemma of Pluralism: The Battle over Kentucky's Transylvania University, 1800-1830 David J. Voelker 51
Nat Turner and Signs of the Apocalypse Wayne K. Durrill 77
"Neither Cult nor Charisma": William Miller and Leadership of New Religious Movements Ruth Alden Doan 94
"Ladies, Arise'. The World Has Need of You": The Widow Bumpass's Newspaper War Cheryl F. Junk 113
Where Do We Go from Here?: Spiritualism and Eternity in 1850s Nashville Nancy Gray Schoonmaker 132
Annie Wittenmyer and the Twilight of Evangelical Reform Robert F. Martin 141
'All Sharers in the Blessed Knowledge": Niijima Jo's Transpacific Crusade for a Christian Japan, 1871-73 Gavin James Campbell 162
Psychological and Historical Perspectives on the Denial of Death Mary E. Frederickson 177
The Underground Railroad: Deus ex Machina W. Thomas Mainwaring 204
Kentucky in Bloomsbury: Henrietta Bingham, Black Culture, and the Southern Gothic in Jazz Age London Emily Bingham 217
Nationalism, Marxism, and the Christian Reformed Church in Cuba Daniel R. Miller 238
Preachers and Politics: The Religious Issue in the North Carolina Presidential Campaign of 1960-A Footnote on Al Smith Gerald Lee Wilson 255
Appendix A Dissertations Directed by Donald G. Mathews 277
Appendix B Select Bibliography of Donald G. Mathews's Writings, 1965-2015 279
Contributors 283
Index 287
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A fascinating cast troops through this lively tribute to Donald Mathews—preachers, prophets, phrenologists, and a southern belle who brought the blues to Bloomsbury. Here is southern religious history in all its memorable variations.
Over a half century Don Mathews has probed tellingly the complexities and terrible ironies at the intersection of religion, morality, and race and gender relations, particularly in the bible belt. Reflecting his stature and continuing influence are the two dozen students who wrote dissertations with him. Here, in honor of their friend and mentor, two-thirds share their frequently exciting work in progress, often using biography as a lens.