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Evangelizing the South (Hardcover)
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Evangelizing the South (Hardcover)
Series: Religion in America
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Although many refer to the American South as the "Bible Belt," the
region was not always characterized by a powerful religious
culture. In the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century,
religion-in terms both of church membership and personal piety-was
virtually absent from southern culture. The late eighteenth century
and early nineteenth century, however, witnessed the astonishingly
rapid rise of evangelical religion in the Upper South. Within just
a few years, evangelicals had spread their beliefs and their
fervor, gaining converts and building churches throughout Virginia
and North Carolina and into the western regions. But what was it
that made evangelicalism so attractive to a region previously
uninterested in religion?
Monica Najar argues that early evangelicals successfully
negotiated the various challenges of the eighteenth-century
landscape by creating churches that functioned as civil as well as
religious bodies. The evangelical church of the late eighteenth
century was the cornerstone of its community, regulating marriages,
monitoring prices, arbitrating business, and settling disputes. As
the era experienced substantial rifts in the relationship between
church and state, the disestablishment of colonial churches paved
the way for new formulations of church-state relations. The
evangelical churches were well-positioned to provide guidance in
uncertain times, and their multiple functions allowed them to
reshape many of the central elements of authority in southern
society. They assisted in reformulating the lines between the
"religious" and "secular" realms, with significant consequences for
both religion and the emerging nation-state.
Touching on the creationof a distinctive southern culture, the
position of women in the private and public arenas, family life in
the Old South, the relationship between religion and slavery, and
the political culture of the early republic, Najar reveals the
history behind a religious heritage that remains a distinguishing
mark of American society.
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