Evangelizing the South: A Social History of Church and State in Early America (Religion in America) PDF
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Evangelizing the South Recenttitlesin RELIGIONINAMERICASERIES HarryS.Stout,GeneralEditor NATHANIELTAYLOR,NEWHAVENTHEOLOGY,ANDTHELEGACY OFJONATHANEDWARDS DouglasA.Sweeney BLACKPURITAN,BLACKREPUBLICAN TheLifeandThoughtofLemuelHaynes,1753–1833 JohnSaillant WITHOUTBENEFITOFCLERGY WomenandthePastoralRelationshipinNineteenth-CenturyAmericanCulture KarinE.Gedge A.J.TOMLINSON PlainfolkModernist R.G.Robins FAITHINREADING ReligiousPublishingandtheBirthofMassMediainAmerica DavidPaulNord THEFAITHOFTHECOMMONPEOPLE ProtestantFundamentalisminBoston,1885–1950 MargaretLambertsBendroth APARADISEOFREASON WilliamBentleyandEnlightenmentChristianityintheEarlyRepublic J.RixeyRuffin EVANGELIZINGTHESOUTH ASocialHistoryofChurchandStateintheUpperSouth MonicaNajar Evangelizing the South A Social History of Church and State in Early America monica najar 1 2008 1 OxfordUniversityPress,Inc.,publishesworksthatfurther OxfordUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellence inresearch,scholarship,andeducation. Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright#2008byOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 www.oup.com OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Najar,Monica. EvangelizingtheSouth:asocialhistoryofchurchandstateinthe UpperSouth/MonicaNajar. p.cm.—(ReligioninAmericaseries) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-19-530900-3 1. SouthernStates—Churchhistory. 2. Churchandstate—SouthernStates. 3. SouthernStates—Socialconditions. I. Title. BR535.N352007 277.5'081—dc22 2007001260 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper For Margaret Rosalie Najar and Phoebe Rosalie Liskin This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments It is apleasureto acknowledge the generosity andexpertise ofthe many individuals who assistedin the creation ofthis book.In this project, and the projectsto come, I owe ahappydebt to Jeanne Boy- dston.Withagiftforposingpiercingquestionsandwiththeclarityto discern patternsandarguments, sheenriched my training andim- measurably aidedthis project. Her good humorand graciousness throughout the years will always be appreciated.Charles Cohen read many drafts of this project andgenerously gave ofhis time and ex- pertise, offering his sharp insights andsharper wit. I have been blessed too to have wonderful colleaguesat Lehigh University, many of whom have sharedtime, ideas, and very useful suggestions. In particular, Jean Soderlund has been a font of wisdom,and John Pet- tegrewcarefullyreviewed the manuscript and offered valuable sug- gestions. Iam also grateful to the wonderful people atOxford University Press. Cynthia Read has been a kind and wise editor, and Stacey Hamilton, DanielGonzalez, andMerryl Sloane have expertly guidedthis manuscriptthrough the editorial process. Other individuals generously read this book in part or in whole. SarahFatherlyandEllenBakercloselyreaddraftsofthemanuscript, offeringtheirextensive expertiseand unwavering support. Tracey DeutschandBethelSalergavesageadvicetoimprovethiswork.Iam also grateful for the valuable suggestions ofJonathan Sassi,Cynthia Kierner,Anne Boylan, John LauritzLarson,SylviaFrey, Kirsten Fisher, StephenKantrowitz,Natasha Larimer,Anne Lewis-Osler, viii acknowledgments David Chang, Ceci Najar, Simone Najar, Peter Russell, Michael Fitzgerald, GailCooper,JanFergus,ElizabethDolan,BenjaminWright,HannahStewart- Gambino,andtheanonymousreadersforOxfordUniversityPress.GregoryA. Willskindlysharedhisownextensiveresearch.Portionsofthemanuscriptalso benefited from comments by the members of the University of Minnesota’s ComparativeWomen’sHistoryWorkshop,theUniversityofWisconsin’sEarly American Colloquium, and the UW women’s history community. A number of undergraduate and graduate student assistants provided various kinds of helpthroughoutthisproject,particularlyMeredithGee,CourtneySmith,Seth Fertenbach, Christianne Gadd, and Silas Chamberlin. Kathryn Erb was a su- perb assistant who handled any number of tasks and managed an unwieldy database.ThemanuscripthasbeengreatlyimprovedbyHollyKent’skeeneye and graceful prose. I am also grateful to the archivists and librarians at a number of institu- tions. In particular, I would like to thank the staffs at the Library of Virginia, Virginia Historical Society, North Carolina Baptist Historical Collection at Wake Forest University, North Carolina State Archives, Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, Kentucky Historical Society Library, Tennes- see State Archives, Margaret I. King Library at the University of Kentucky, LehighUniversity,andSouthernBaptistTheologicalSeminary.DarleneSlater HerodandhercolleaguesattheVirginiaBaptistHistoricalSocietyhavebeen generous with their time and expertise. Finally, I would like to thank the librarians and staff at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, in particular, Michael Edmonds, who was always willing to offer assistance. Anumberofinstitutionsprovidedmewithsupporttoresearchandwrite thisproject.IamverygratefultotheCommitteeforInstitutionalCooperation; the Virginia Historical Society for Mellon research funds; the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison;the Colonial Dames of Wisconsin; Lehigh University; the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives; and the LawrenceHenryGipsonInstituteforEighteenth-CenturyStudies.Ialsowant to thank the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, which providednotonlythefinancialandphysicalspaceforayearofwriting,butalso wonderful colleagues and exciting conversations. Parts of chapter 4 were publishedinanearlierforminAmericanBaptistQuarterly16(Sept.1997)and arereprintedherewithpermissionoftheAmericanBaptistHistoricalSociety. A version of chapter 6 was published in the Journal of the Early Republic 25 (Summer2005).My thanks go to the editors and the anonymous readers. Finally,myfamilyprovidedallkindsofsupporttoenablemetocomplete thisproject.Mymother,MargaretNajar,raisedthequestionsthathavebecome acknowledgments ix thefoundation ofmyworkandgavemeallthe toolstoinvestigatethem,and my father, Leopoldo Najar, remains an enthusiastic supporter of my choices. I am enormouslygrateful to both ofthem. A note about quotations: I have kept the original spelling, capitalization, and punctuationasmuchaspossiblewithoutthedistractinguseof[sic],andIhave introducedcorrections onlywhennecessary for clarity.
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