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Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century (Religion and American Culture) by Wayne Flynt (Author),Charles A. Israel and John M. Giggie (Foreword) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Essays by the distinguished historian of southern religion Wayne Flynt, that illuminate the often overlooked complexity among southern Protestants. 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 robu
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- Author
- Wayne Flynt (Author),Charles A. Israel and John M. Giggie (Foreword)
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780817319083
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Religion, Christian
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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