{"product_id":"ye-that-are-men-now-serve-him","title":"Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him","description":"\u003ci\u003eYe That Are Men Now Serve Him\u003c\/i\u003e examines how religious belief reshaped concepts of gender during the New South period that took place from 1877 to 1915 in ways that continue to manifest today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Modernity remade much of the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and was nowhere more transformational than in the American South. In the wake of the Civil War, the region not only formed new legal, financial, and social structures, but citizens of the South also faced disorienting uncertainty about personal identity and even gender itself.\u003ci\u003e Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him\u003c\/i\u003e traces the changes in southern gender roles during the New South period of 1877–1915 and demonstrates that religion is the key to perceiving how constructions of gender changed.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Civil War cleaved southerners from the culture they had developed organically during antebellum decades, raising questions that went to the very heart of selfhood: What does it mean to be a man? How does a good woman behave? Unmoored from traditional anchors of gender, family, and race, southerners sought guidance from familiar sources: scripture and their churches. In \u003ci\u003eYe That Are Men Now Serve Him\u003c\/i\u003e, Colin Chapell traces how concepts of gender evolved within the majority Baptist and Methodist denominations as compared to the more fluid and innovative Holiness movement.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Grounded in expansive research into the archives of the Southern Baptist Convention; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; and the Holiness movement, Chapell’s writing is also enlivened by a rich trove of primary sources: diaries, sermons, personal correspondence, published works, and unpublished memoirs. Chapell artfully contrasts the majority Baptist and Methodist view of gender with the relatively radical approaches of the emerging Holiness movement, thereby bringing into focus how subtle differences in belief gave rise to significantly different ideas of gender roles.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Scholars have explored class, race, and politics as factors that contributed to contemporary southern identity, and Chapell restores theology to its intuitive place at the center of southern identity. Probing and illuminating, \u003ci\u003eYe That Are Men Now Serve Him \u003c\/i\u003eoffers much of interest to scholars and readers of the South, southern history, and religion.","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55318987407704,"sku":"9780817360399","price":28.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780817360399.jpg?v=1777974351","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ye-that-are-men-now-serve-him","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}