Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925 (Fred W Morrison Series in Southern Studies) PDF
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REDEEMING THE SOUTH The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies Redeeming the South : Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern title: Baptists, 1865-1925 Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies author: Harvey, Paul. publisher: University of North Carolina Press isbn10 | asin: 0807823244 print isbn13: 9780807823248 ebook isbn13: 9780807861950 language: English Baptists--Southern States--History--19th century, Baptists--Southern States--History- -20th century, African American Baptists-- subject Southern States--History--19th century, African American Baptists--Southern States--History--20th century, Southern States--Race publication date: 1997 lcc: BX6241.H37 1997eb ddc: 286/.175/089 Baptists--Southern States--History--19th century, Baptists--Southern States--History- -20th century, African American Baptists-- subject: Southern States--History--19th century, African American Baptists--Southern States--History--20th century, Southern States--Race PAUL HARVEY Redeeming the South Religious Cultures and Racial Identities among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925 The University ofNorth Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London Page iv © 1997 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guide-lines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guide-lines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Harvey; Paul, 1961 Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925 / by Paul Harvey. p. cm. (The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies) ISBN 0- 8078-2324-4 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 0-8078-4634-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. BaptistsSouthern StatesHistory 9th century. 2. BaptistsSouthern StatesHistory20th century. 3. Afro-American BaptistsSouthern States History19th century. 4. Afro-American BaptistsSouthern StatesHistory 20th century. 5. Southern StatesRace relations. 6. Southern StatesChurch history19th century. 7. Southern StatesChurch history20th century. 8. Southern Baptist ConventionHistory. 9. National Baptist Convention of the United States of AmericaHistory. 1. Title. II. Series. BX6241.H37 1997 96-32882 286'. 175'089dc20 CIP 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1 Page v For my parents, William Gipson and Willie Maude Harvey, two Southern Baptists who have lived out the best of their tradition Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: Southern Baptists and Southern Religious History PART ONE Religion, Race, and Reconstruction 1Redeemed by the Blood: White Baptist Organizing in the South, 1865-1895 2A Wall of the Lord 'Round Me: Black Baptist Organizing in the South, 1865-1895 PART TWO Religious Cultures and the Social Order in the New South 3These Untutored Masses: Spirituality and Respectability among White Southern Baptists 4God Stepped in My Soul: Spirituality and Respectability among 107 Black Southern Baptists 5The Character of Ministerial Manliness: White Southern Baptist 137 Ministers, 1870-1925 6Intriguers and Idealists: Black Southern Baptist Ministers, 1870- 167 1925 PART THREE Southern Baptist Progressivism 7Scientific Management in Our Church-Craft: White Southern 197 Baptist Progressivism, 1895-1925 Page viii 8The Holy Spirit Come to Us and Forbid the Negro Taking a Second 227 Place: Black Southern Baptists in theAge of Jim Crow Conclusion: Religion, Race, and Culture in the South 257 Notes 261 Index 317 Page ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am deeply indebted to the libraries and archivists who made my research both possible and fruitful, including the following: the North Carolina Baptist Historical Commission in the Smith-Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University; the Records Room of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention; the Howard University Library; the American Baptist Historical Society Library, Rochester, New York; and the Boyce Library at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. Interlibrary loan personnel at the University of California at Berkeley, Valparaiso University, Belmont University, and The Colorado College expedited an inordinate number of requests with efficiency. My deepest debt is to the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives in Nashville, Tennessee. The librarians and archivists there provided me with a research home, ferreted out obscure documents from the depths of their vaults, searched out places for me to live, directed me to the closest lunch bargains, and endured my overdue book lapses. For all this and more, thanks go to Bill Sumners, Pat Brown, Mary Jo Driscoll, Lynn May, and Charles DeWeese. My research was also made possible by grants and fellowships that allowed me extended time for travel to numerous archives and libraries. At the University of California at Berkeley the Max Farand Fund afforded me two travel grants, and the Humanities Research Grant funded a separate research outing, which provided invaluable information for this work. After completing the dissertation on which this book is based, the Louisville Institute provided summer research monies that kick-started the process of revising it into a book. I thank James Lewis, Dorothy Bass, and the members of the Louisville Institute Grant committee for their encouragement. A National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar directed by Charles Reagan Wilson at the University of Mississippi allowed me to test out many ideas. From 1993-95 the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts at Valparaiso University generously provided me with a two-year teaching postdoctoral fellowship. Final revisions on the manuscript were funded by a grant from the Pew Program in Religion and American History at Yale University, whose directors, Harry "Skip" Stout and Jon Butler have provided a tremendous resource for younger scholars in the field of American religious history. At the University of North Carolina Press, David Perry has been a constant source of encouragement, and Mary Caviness was a model copyeditor.
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