Invoking the strong ties they sense between the courses of their
lives and their careers, the sixteen historians of religion who
have contributed to "Autobiographical Reflections on Southern
Religious History" share their thoughts and motivations. In these
highly personal essays, both pioneering and promising young
scholars discuss their work and interests as they recall how the
circumstances of their upbringing and education steered them toward
religious history. They tell of their own time and place and of
their growing awareness of how religion ties into larger social
issues: gender, class, and, most notably, race. Indeed, one essay
begins, "I was asked to write about why I came to study religion in
the South. It was then I realized that it was because my
grandfather had been lynched."
Lutheran, Jewish, Catholic, Methodist, and Episcopal viewpoints
are represented as, of course, are Baptist. Some contributors have
stood in the pulpit; others at least commenced their higher
education with that aim. While some contributors were born and
reared, and now work in the Bible Belt, others are
outsiders--physically, philosophically, or both. Some came from
intellectual traditions; others were the first in their family to
attend college.
Despite their common interest in its history, southern religion
is anything but an intellectual abstraction for the contributors to
this book. It is a potent force, and here sixteen men and women
offer themselves as proof of its power to shape lives.
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