The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Religon (1) - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807856746 ISBN 13 : 9780807856741

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2006

Synopsis

Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century. Even as the conservative Protestantism typically associated with the South has risen in social and political prominence throughout the United States in recent decades, however, religious culture in the South itself has grown increasingly diverse. The region has seen a surge of immigration from other parts of the United States as well as from Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, bringing increased visibility to Catholicism, Islam, and Asian religions in the once solidly Protestant Christian South.

In this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, contributors have revised entries from the original Encyclopedia on topics ranging from religious broadcasting to snake handling and added new entries on such topics as Asian religions, Latino religion, New Age religion, Islam, Native American religion, and social activism. With the contributions of more than 60 authorities in the field -- including Paul Harvey, Loyal Jones, Wayne Flynt, and Samuel F. Weber -- this volume is an accessibly written, up-to-date reference to religious culture in the American South.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Samuel S. Hill is professor emeritus of religion at the University of Florida. He is author of Southern Churches in Crisis and the Encyclopedia of Religion in the South.

Charles Reagan Wilson is director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. He is coeditor, with William Ferris, of the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and general editor of the 24-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807856746
• ISBN 13: 9780807856741
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Wilson Charles Reagan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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