Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him examines how religious belief
reshaped concepts of gender during the New South period that took
place from 1877 to 1915 in ways that continue to manifest today.
Modernity remade much of the world in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries and was nowhere more transformational than in
the American South. In the wake of the Civil War, the region not
only formed new legal, financial, and social structures, but
citizens of the South also faced disorienting uncertainty about
personal identity and even gender itself. Ye That Are Men Now Serve
Him traces the changes in southern gender roles during the New
South period of 1877-1915 and demonstrates that religion is the key
to perceiving how constructions of gender changed. The Civil War
cleaved southerners from the culture they had developed organically
during antebellum decades, raising questions that went to the very
heart of selfhood: What does it mean to be a man? How does a good
woman behave? Unmoored from traditional anchors of gender, family,
and race, southerners sought guidance from familiar sources:
scripture and their churches. In Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him,
Colin Chapell traces how concepts of gender evolved within the
majority Baptist and Methodist denominations as compared to the
more fluid and innovative Holiness movement. Grounded in expansive
research into the archives of the Southern Baptist Convention;
Methodist Episcopal Church, South; and the Holiness movement,
Chapell's writing is also enlivened by a rich trove of primary
sources: diaries, sermons, personal correspondence, published
works, and unpublished memoirs. Chapell artfully contrasts the
majority Baptist and Methodist view of gender with the relatively
radical approaches of the emerging Holiness movement, thereby
bringing into focus how subtle differences in belief gave rise to
significantly different ideas of gender roles. Scholars have
explored class, race, and politics as factors that contributed to
contemporary southern identity, and Chapell restores theology to
its intuitive place at the center of southern identity. Probing and
illuminating, Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him offers much of interest
to scholars and readers of the South, southern history, and
religion.
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