Product Description: In this comparative history of religious life in the South and the North, Samuel Hill considers the religions of America from a unique angle. Tracing the religious history of both areas, this study dramatically shows how a common religion was altered by hostilities and then continued to develop as separate entities until recently...read more

Product Description:  It has been one of the major news stories in religion and culture of the past twenty-five years. From 1979 to 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was rocked by assaults on its leadership by fundamentalists, who used questionabletactics to gain top positions and then used their power to purge Baptist seminary presidents and professors, church pastors, lay leaders, and women from positions of responsibility...read more

Treating Southern Catholicism in functional and symbolic terms and relating it to the culture of the region, this study indeed represents a pioneering effort, a comprehensive examination of what it was like to be a Catholic in the slaveholding, predominantly Protestant South. In the editor's introduction (Miller) and afterword (Wakelyn), they provide an incisive overview of a heretofore neglected field.

Provides information on historical background, doctrine, organization, and membership for each of more than two hundred twenty-five religious bodies in the United States

Product Description: Hill’s landmark work in southern religious history returns to print updated and expanded – and compellingly relevant. In 1966, Samuel S. Hill’s Southern Churches in Crisis argued that southern Protestantism, a cornerstone of white southern society and culture, was shirking its moral duty by refusing to join in the fight for racial justice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this richly suggestive overview, a noted historian illuminates the variety and vitality of southern religion by examining three major Protestant denominational families in the region: Baptists, "Christians" (for example, the Churches of Christ), and the "of God" groups (Pentecostals, among others)...read more

Product Description: Book by Hill, Samuel S.

Looks at the leaders, principles, goals, and practices of the religious right and speculates on the influence of this recent political movement on U.S. politics and society