Author: Cullen Tuller Carter
Publisher:
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Charles Henry Phillips
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Category : African American Christians
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Author: Association of Methodist Historical Societies
Publisher: [Lake Junaluska, N.C.] : Association of Methodist Historical Societies
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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Author: Charles Alan Israel
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820326467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The 1925 Tennessee v. John Scopes case--the Scopes Monkey Trial--is one of America's most famous courtroom battles. Until now, however, no one has considered at length why the sensational, divisive trial of a public high school science teacher indicted for teaching evolution took place where, and when, it did. This study ranges over the fifty years preceding the trial to examine intertwined attitudes toward schooling and faith held by Tennessee's politically dominant white evangelical Protestants. Those decades saw accelerating social and economic change in the South, writes Charles A. Israel. Education, long the province of family and community, grew ever more centralized, professionalized, and isolated from the local values that first underpinned it. As Israel tells how parents and church, civic, and political leaders at first opposed public education, then endorsed it, and finally fought to control it, he reveals their deep ambivalence about the intangible costs of progress. Lessons that Evangelicals took away from failed adult temperance campaigns also prompted them to reexert control over who and what influenced their children. Evangelicals rallied behind a 1915 bill requiring the Bible to be read daily in public schools. The 1925 Butler bill criminalized the teaching of evolution, which had come to symbolize all that was threatening about theological liberalism and materialistic science. The stage for the Scopes trial had been set. Delving deeply into the collective mind of a people in an age of uncertainty, Before Scopes sheds new light on religious belief, ideology, and expression.

Author: Horace Jewell
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Category : Arkansas
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Author: Stephen V. Ash
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572335394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Originally published in 1988, Middle Tennessee Society Transformed marks a significant advance in the social history of the American Civil War--an approach exemplified and extended in Ash's later work and that of other leading Civil War scholars. For the new edition, Ash has written a preface that takes into account the advance of Civil War historiography since the book's original appearance. This preface cites subsequent studies focusing not only on race and class but also on women and gender relations, the significance of partisan politics in shaping the course of secession in Tennessee and other upper-South states, the economic forces at work, the influence of republican ideology, and the investigation of the degree to which slaves were active agents in their own emancipation.

Author: John Berry M'Ferrin
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: Dennis C. Dickerson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521191521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 615

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Explores the emergence of African Methodism within the black Atlantic and how it struggled to sustain its liberationist identity.

Author: John Wooldridge
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Category : Nashville (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 800

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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