Southern Religion in the World: Three Stories (George H. Shriver Lecture Series in Religion in American History Ser.)

Book overview Description Editorial Reviews Religion in the American South emerged as part of a globalized, transnational movement of peoples from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Ironically, it then came to be seen as the most localized, provincial kind of religion in America, one famously hostile to outside ideas, influences, and agitators.