Trabelin' on
Trabelin' on

Author: Mechal Sobel

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1988-04-21

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0691006032

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"Originally published, with appendix, in the Greenwood Press series, Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 36, Westport, CT, c1979"--T.p. verso.

Alabama Baptists
Alabama Baptists

Author: Wayne Flynt

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 768

ISBN-13: 9780817309275

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The definitive history of the dominant religious group within the state during the last two centuries

Doing the Possible
Doing the Possible

Author: Joseph M Jones

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2004-11

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 0595334873

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Doing the Possible tells the life-story of an early Primitive Baptist church in the wildness of northeast Alabama, a late-blooming area of the state that was a sanctuary for Cherokee Indians being pushed toward extinction. White settlers--prominent among them the family of William (Billy) Edwards who gave his name and a tract of land to the new county seat--established in the inhospitable hills and hollows a thriving church and community. They built a warm fellowship that was often disrupted by theological controversy as they set a course quite different from the "mainstream" church--and once the community was shocked by an act of physical violence, murder in the churchyard. And there are glimpses of the backwoods enterprise on which a few members depended heavily, the profitable conversion of corn into the moonshine for which the area is noted. But mostly it is a story of plain, hardy people living and loving together.

American Congregations, Volume 1
American Congregations, Volume 1

Author: James P. Wind

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 9780226901862

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The congregation is a distinctly American religious structure, and is often overlooked in traditional studies of religion. But one cannot understand American religion without understanding the congregation. Volume 1: Portraits of Twelve Religious Communities chronicles the founding, growth, and development of congregations that represent the diverse and complex reality of American local religious cultures. The contributors explore multiple issues, from the fate of American Protestantism to the rise of charismatic revivalism. Volume 2: New Perspectives in the Study of Congregations builds upon those historical studies, and addresses three crucial questions: Where is the congregation located on the broader map of American cultural and religious life? What are congregations' distinctive qualities, tasks, and roles in American culture? And, what patterns of leadership characterize congregations in America?

The Shaping of Southern Culture
The Shaping of Southern Culture

Author: Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780807849125

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Extending his investigation into the ethical life of the white American South beyond what he wrote in Southern Honor (1982), Bertram Wyatt-Brown explores three major themes in southern history: the political aspects of the South's code of honor, th