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Print Length: 352 pages

Page Numbers Source ISBN: 080784716X

Publisher: Knopf; 1 edition (April 3, 2013)

Publication Date: April 3, 2013

Sold by: Random House LLC

Language: English

ASIN: B00BRUQ4J8

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Christine Leigh Heyrman’s Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt examines the rise of Evangelical Christianity in the American South beginning just prior to the American Revolution and proceeding through the early republic period. Heyrman’s work speaks to social history, political history, cultural history, as well as race and gender history. In Heyrman’s own words, she uses this monograph as a means of “recovering a world marooned from living memory in which evangelicals, far from dominating the South, were viewed by most whites as odd at best and subversive at worst.” She reconstructs this world and traces Evangelical Christianity from its origins as a fringe religion to the dominant belief system in the American South.Heyrman argues that Evangelical Christianity was not a powerful force within the South from its beginning and spends most of her monograph examining the ways in which evangelicals challenged and strained Southern society. The same young ministers and young gifts who spread the message of evangelicals threatened the established order of Southern life due to their itinerant ministering and forsaking of marriage. Even within the Methodist Church, Heyrman writes, “As salaries, full-time professional preachers, itinerants ranked as the princelings of the church; they alone admitted and expelled members, and they alone were eligible to attend, deliberate, and vote at the General Conference, which the bishops convened every fours years to decide church policy.” Beyond the threat of youth superseding their elders, evangelicals challenged notions of gender and the family. According to Heyrman, while evangelicalism could unite families, “evangelical loyalties were at least as likely to divide as to unite white families living in the early South.” She demonstrates this through the examples of Stith Mead and others who rejected relatives or were rejected by relatives that did not share their conversion. Finally, Heyrman describes the unique opportunities for women to exercise spiritual power, writing, “When the clergy identified bona fide seers, they were more likely to be women than men. While preachers believed that both sexes might have portents of the future revealed in their dreams, they tended to be skeptical of laymen claiming special knowledge from any other source.” In this way, “the clergy endorsed the view that acceptable forms of female spiritual expression went beyond fulfilling their private roles as dutiful wives, mothers, and sisters.” This challenged the South’s gendered hierarchy.Heyrman writes in the context of Rhys Isaac, Nathan Hatch, Rachel Klein, Stephanie McCurry, and Paul Johnson. Heyrman uses the journals of ministers, converts, and others around them as her primary sources. Several of these were published while their subjects still lived though others, containing the innermost spiritual struggles of their authors, remained private during the authors’ lifetimes. Heyrman classifies these sources into two categories. She writes, “The first was the lore of wonders, accounts abounding in marvels and miracles, prodigies and portents, which were published on both sides of the Atlantic during the early modern era.” In this way, evangelicalism fit into a larger continuity of religious thought. Heyrman writes, “The second source influencing the southern clergy were narratives of earlier religious awakenings in Britain and its American colonies published in the middle of the eighteenth century.” These link evangelicalism to the First Great Awakening.

I really enjoyed this work. If you want to get the background of the Bible Belt in America this is a good resource.

Very useful book. The author has a wonderful way with words.

I was really hoping for more emphasis on the radical religions during that time period. I actually had a difficult time reading and staying focused on the material....Maybe check it out at the library before you invest in purchasing it...

It's good. A bit dry. Can't tell if author is Christian or not. I like it.

First the good: I think this is a well written, well researched academic book that is informative, insightful and deserving of "landmark" status as academic critiques of American religion go.The not so good: Well after what seemed like a great start, the book basically digresses into a critique of gender roles, use of military and manly imagery by the clergy to "market" their religion to white males and (to a lesser degree) compromise on opposition to slavery.Fair enough. But aside from a very few interesting anecdotes, this book trails off and meanders in a detached and eventually condescending tone which to me is . . . well . . boring.Finally in the epilogue the author essentially confides that southern evangelicals would not even merit serious study if it weren't for the growing political influence they possess today.So why should I (um, ok - - I'm a B B B Baptist . . . ) be annoyed by this book? Well its kind like music reviews to me. If you don't even like the music in the first place, why are you writing a review? Or if you don't like Soul music - - just don't even bother writing about Al Green.The trouble with a "secular humanist" writing a critique of religion to me is not that they can't (as in this book) do a good job of talking about the religion (or 'Song of Canaan" as called here) . . . its that they don't like the music . . . and can't seem to fathom why we sing.

I remember reading this book some years ago, though I have no idea how I even got it. I say that because this is not the kind of book that would normally appeal to me. But it was really a well researched and thoughtful treatment of the subject (as one writer states, how the south got religion), I thought. It has been a long time but I vividly remember the impression I got from the book as a Southern Evangelical Christian, that I may not necessarily be the person I thought I was. It helped me to see that I was, as we all truly are, a product of the generations that have gone before (a simple observation but still mind-blowing every time you realize how much it applies to yourself). Some parts of the text were uncomfortable for me to read but I got through without feeling overly mocked or molested and can say I enjoyed the book and have thought of it often over the years (especially as a leveraging point for self-reflection). Very readable. Very interesting. The reason I don't give 5 stars is because a couple of times I wondered whether the author had truly experienced, from the inside, what it meant to be 1)southern and 2)an evangelical Christian! History isn't just about setting dates and events, it is sometimes a fragile weaving of culture and individual perspectives that you just have to experience. Anyhow I liked it 'n I s'pect that's all I gotta say!

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