A01=Joel L. Alvis
Author_Joel L. Alvis
Category=JBCC
Category=JBF
Category=JBSL1
Category=NHTB
Category=QRMB33
christianity
church
civil war
cultural shift
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Presbyterians
race
religion
religious
segregation
south
southern history
southern religion
war
Product details
- ISBN 9780817307011
- Weight: 324g
- Dimensions: 154 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 30 Mar 1994
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Joel Alvis focuses on the relationships and tensions in the American Presbyterian Church, whose ecclesiastical boundaries never expanded significantly beyond its original territory in the Confederacy and border South. By the time of the civil rights movement, the church was actively involved in ecumenical activities despite its regional isolation; that involvement created unease in some quarters of the denomination. This institutional history describes how the church shaped and was shaped by its regional culture and explores the denomination's own culture as it struggled to determine what role racial issues and realities would have in the definition of being ""Presbyterian"".
