History of Grenada County Baptist Association, 1921-1960
Author : Hudson Rundle
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Page : 47 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Baptists
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Author : Hudson Rundle
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Baptists
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Author : Bowden Hudson Rundle
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Baptists
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Author : Orrin D. Morris
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Page : 19 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Baptists
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Author : Stephenson Worme
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Baptist associations
ISBN : 9789768204899
Author : Randy J. Sparks
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617035807
In the 1600s Colonial French settlers brought Christianity into the lands that are now the state of Mississippi. Throughout the period of French rule and the period of Spanish dominion that followed, Roman Catholicism remained the principal religion. By the time that statehood was achieved in 1817, Mississippi was attracting Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, and other Protestant evangelical faiths at a remarkable pace, and by the twentieth century, religion in Mississippi was dominantly Protestant and evangelical. In this book, Randy J. Sparks traces the roots of evangelical Christianity in the state and shows how the evangelicals became a force of cultural revolution. They embraced the poorer segments of society, welcomed high populations of both women and African Americans, and deeply influenced ritual and belief in the state's vision of Christianity. In the 1830s as the Mississippi economy boomed, so did evangelicalism. As Protestant faiths became wedded to patriarchal standards, slaveholding, and southern political tradition, seeds were sown for the war that would erupt three decades later. Until Reconstruction many Mississippi churches comprised biracial congregations and featured women in prominent roles, but as the Civil War and the racial split cooled the evangelicals' liberal fervor and drastically changed the democratic character of their religion into arch-conservatism, a strong but separate black church emerged. As dominance by Protestant conservatives solidified, Jews, Catholics, and Mormons struggled to retain their religious identities while conforming to standards set by white Protestant society. As Sparks explores the dissonance between the state's powerful evangelical voice and Mississippi's social and cultural mores, he reveals the striking irony of faith and society in conflict. By the time of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, religion, formerly a liberal force, had become one of the leading proponents of segregation, gender inequality, and ethnic animosity among whites in the Magnolia State. Among blacks, however, the churches were bastions of racial pride and resistance to the forces of oppression.
Author : James B. Lloyd
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Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Edward Caryl Starr
Publisher :
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Baptists
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Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Mississippi
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Includes section "Book reviews".
Author : A. Russell Belden
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Baptist associations
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Author : Thomas J. Taylor
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Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Baptists
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