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Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century
is a collection of fifteen essays by award-winning scholar Wayne
Flynt that explores and reveals the often-forgotten religious
heterogeneity of the American South. Throughout its dramatic
history, the American South has wrestled with issues such as
poverty, social change, labor reform, civil rights, and party
politics, and Flynt's writing reaffirms religion as the lens
through which southerners understand and attempt to answer these
contentious questions. In Southern Religion and Christian Diversity
in the Twentieth Century, however, Flynt gently but persuasively
dispels the myth-comforting to some and dismaying to others-of
religion in the South as an inert cairn of reactionary
conservatism. Flynt introduces a wealth of stories about
individuals and communities of faith whose beliefs and actions map
the South's web of theological fault lines. In the early twentieth
century, North Carolinian pastor Alexander McKelway became a
relentless crusader against the common practice of child labor. In
1972, Rev. Dr. Ruby Kile, in a time of segregated churches led by
men, took the helm of the eight-member Powderly Faith Deliverance
Center in Jefferson County, Alabama and built the fledgling group
into a robust congregation with more than 700 black and white
worshippers. Flynt also examines the role of religion in numerous
pivotal court cases, such as the US Supreme Court school prayer
case Engel v. Vitale, whose majority opinion was penned by Justice
Hugo Black, an Alabamian. These fascinating case studies and many
more illuminate a religious landscape of far more varied texture
and complexity than is commonly believed. Southern Religion and
Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century offers much to readers
and scholars interested in the South, religion, and theology.
Writing with his hallmark wit, warmth, and erudition, Flynt's
Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century
is a vital record of gospel-inspired southerners whose stories
revivify sclerotic assumptions about the narrow conformity of
southern Christians.
Examining the First World War through the lens of the American
South. How did World War I affect the American South? Did
southerners experience the war in a particular way? How did
regional considerations and, more generally, southern values and
culture impact the wider war effort? Was there a distinctive
southern experience of WWI? Scholars considered these questions
during "Dixie's Great War," a symposium held at the University of
Alabama in October 2017 to commemorate the centenary of the
American intervention in the war. With the explicit intent of
exploring iterations of the Great War as experienced in the
American South and by its people, organizers John M. Giggie and
Andrew J. Huebner also sought to use historical discourse as a form
of civic engagement designed to facilitate a community conversation
about the meanings of the war. Giggie and Huebner structured the
panels thematically around military, social, and political
approaches to the war to encourage discussion and exchanges between
panelists and the public alike. Drawn from transcriptions of the
day's discussions and lightly edited to preserve the conversational
tone and mix of professional and public voices, Dixie's Great War:
World War I and the American South captures the process of
historians at work with the public, pushing and probing general
understandings of the past, uncovering and reflecting on the deeper
truths and lessons of the Great War-this time, through the lens of
the South. This volume also includes an introduction featuring a
survey of recent literature dealing with regional aspects of WWI
and a discussion of the centenary commemorations of the war. An
afterword by noted historian Jay Winter places "Dixie's Great
War"-the symposium and this book-within the larger framework of
commemoration, emphasizing the vital role such forums perform in
creating space and opportunity for scholars and the public alike to
assess and understand the shifting ground between cultural memory
and the historical record.
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