From Mounds to Megachurches: Georgia's Religious HeritageUniversity of Georgia Press, 25 Jan 2010 - 219 halaman In From Mounds to Megachurches David S. Williams offers a sweeping overview of the role religion has played in Georgia's history, from precolonial days to the modern era. Williams shows that colonial Georgia was a remarkably diverse place, populated by mainline colonial congregations that included Anglicans, Roman Catholics, German- and Spanish-speaking Jews, Salzburg Lutherans, and Scottish Presbyterians. It wasn't until much later that evangelicalism triumphed and Baptists became the overwhelmingly dominant denomination. Williams uses the stories of such important figures as Tomochichi, John Wesley, Jesse Mercer, Henry McNeal Turner, Lillian Smith, Martin Luther King Jr., and Clarence Jordan to portray larger historical narratives and denominational battles. Race and religion were intertwined not only in such key movements as abolition and civil rights but also throughout Georgia's history. "In order to fully grasp the religious heritage of Georgia," Williams says, "we must return again and again to racial matters." Recently, Georgians have seen racial, ethnic, and religious diversity grow as Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Baha'i, and other communities have settled in the state. Williams explores how Georgians have dealt with contemporary issues of tolerance and how, at times, the state has taken center stage in our nation's culture wars. Firmly rooting religious history in a social, cultural, and political context, Williams presents a representative and balanced account of Georgia's religious heritage. From Mounds to Megachurches sheds new light on what it means to be a Georgian by exploring an issue that remains central to life in the Sunbelt South. |
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Georgia's Religious Heritage David Salter Williams. Title page image: The oldest public building in Georgia is Jerusalem Lutheran Church (Effingham County), built in 1767–1769. © 2008 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia ...
Georgia's Religious Heritage David Salter Williams. Acknowledgments. I. appreciate the help and guidance provided by Nancy Grayson, associate director and editor-in-chief of the University of Georgia Press, as well as the assistance of the ...
... Georgia, a vivid illustration of the diversity that has marked the state since its beginnings. Indeed, one historian of colonial Georgia has observed that “Georgians were not a homogeneous people. By 1736, to function well in all ...
Georgia's Religious Heritage David Salter Williams. evangelicalism, the juxtaposition of Christ Church and First African Baptist draws our attention to the intertwining of religion and race in Georgia. To paraphrase former Governor Roy E ...
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Seeds Are Sown | 18 |
God Is Calling Evry Nation | 31 |
The Crucible of Slavery | 49 |
A Racial Pas de Deux | 70 |
In the Shadow of Jim Crow | 84 |
Things Are Stirring | 104 |
Culture and Worship Wars | 123 |
Epilogue | 145 |
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