Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules a History of the Episcopal Church in Alabama.
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (281 pages).
- Religion & American Culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. How Anglicanism Came to America; 2. "No gentleman would choose any but the Episcopalian way" : From the Beginning to the 1850s; 3. "This worldliness that is rushing upon us like a flood" : Secession and Civil War; 4. "How is the South like Lazarus?" : Reconstruction; 5. The Age of "Dread-Naughts and Sky-Scrapers" : The End of the Nineteenth Century and the Beginning of the Twentieth; 6. "Great and untried experiments" : From the 1920s to the 1950s. 7. "The Carpenter of Birmingham must not be allowed to forever deny the Carpenter of Nazareth" : The Civil Rights Era8. "O thou who changest not . . ." : From 1968 to the Present; Conclusion: "Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required"; Appendix A: Episcopal Churches in Alabama in Chronological Order; Appendix B: Bishops of the Diocese of Alabama and the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast; Appendix C: Membership of the Episcopal Church and US Population at Ten-Year Intervals from 1830 to 2010. Appendix D: Episcopal Church Membership and Population of Alabama from 1830 to 2010Appendix E: Percentage of Alabamians Twenty-Five Years Old and Older with Four or More Years of Postsecondary Education from 1950 to 2010; Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules tells the story of how the Episcopal Church gained influence over Alabama's cultural, political, and economic arenas despite being a denominational minority in the state. The consensus of southern historians is that, since the Second Great Awakening, evangelicalism has dominated the South. This is certainly true when one considers the extent to which southern culture is dominated by evangelical rhetoric and ideas. However, in Alabama onenon-evangelical group has played a significant role in shaping the state's history. J. Barry Vaughn.