Strangers and friends at the welcome table : contemporary Christianities in the American South /

In this fresh and fascinating chronicle of Christianity in the contemporary South, historian and minister James Hudnut-Beumler draws on extensive interviews and his own personal journeys throughout the region over the past decade to present a comprehensive portrait of the South's long-dominant...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hudnut-Beumler, James David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Christianities in the Now South
  • I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat: hospitality, scarcity, and fear in Southern Christianity
  • The religion of the lost cause, reloaded
  • Rattlesnakes, holiness, and the nearness of the Holy Spirit
  • Washed in the blood in the Red States: religion and politics
  • Our church is cleaning up after Katrina
  • Mississippi flooding
  • Megachurces and the reinvention of Southern church life
  • The changing face of the Catholic south
  • Christian homeschoolers
  • Southern, Christian, and gay
  • Southern Christianities in harmony and conflict.