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Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table - Contemporary Christianities in the American South (Paperback)
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Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table - Contemporary Christianities in the American South (Paperback)
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In this fresh and fascinating chronicle of Christianity in the
contemporary South, historian and minister James Hudnut-Beumler
draws on extensive interviews and his own personal journeys
throughout the region over the past decade to present a
comprehensive portrait of the South's long-dominant religion.
Hudnut-Beumler traveled to both rural and urban communities,
listening to the faithful talk about their lives and beliefs. What
he heard pushes hard against prevailing notions of southern
Christianity as an evangelical Protestant monolith so predominant
as to be unremarkable. True, outside of a few spots, no
non-Christian group forms more than six-tenths of one percent of a
state's population in what Hudnut-Beumler calls the Now South.
Drilling deeper, however, he discovers an unexpected, blossoming
diversity in theology, practice, and outlook among southern
Christians. He finds, alongside traditional Baptists, black and
white, growing numbers of Christians exemplifying changes that no
one could have predicted even just forty years ago, from
congregations of LGBT-supportive evangelicals and Spanish-language
church services to a Christian homeschooling movement so robust in
some places that it may rival public education in terms of
acceptance. He also finds sharp struggles and political divisions
among those trying to reconcile such Christian values as morality
and forgiveness-the aftermath of the mass shooting at Charleston's
Emanuel A.M.E. Church in 2015 forming just one example. This book
makes clear that understanding the twenty-first-century South means
recognizing many kinds of southern Christianities.
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