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050	0	4	_aBR535.H648.O546 1996
100	1		_aHill, Samuel S, _e1
245	1	0	_aOne name but several faces : _bvariety in popular Christian denominations in Southern history / _cSamuel S. Hill. _hPR
260			_aAthens : _bUniversity of Georgia Press, _c(c)1996.
300			_axiv, 128 pages ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aJack N. and Addie D. Averitt lecture series ; _vno. 5
504			_a1 (pages 115.-121) and index.
505	0	0	_aCh. 1. The Baptists -- _tCh. 2. The "Christians" -- Ch. 3. The "of God" Bodies -- _tCh. 4. Interpretation and Conclusion.
520	0		_aIn this richly suggestive overview, a noted historian illuminates the variety and vitality of southern religion by examining three major Protestant denominational families in the region: Baptists, "Christians" (for example, the Churches of Christ), and the "of God" groups (Pentecostals, among others). Ranging in coverage from the colonial period to the present, with special emphasis on the nineteenth century, Samuel S. Hill traces the growth and diversification of each.
520	0		_aof these groups as they have sloughed off old patterns, conventions, and constraints in their neverending searches for systems of belief and modes of expression that better embody their convictions and fit their socioeconomic situations. Throughout One Name but Several Faces, Hill turns again and again to the interrelated themes of freedom, creativity, and discontinuity that emerge from the major transitions of southern religious history: the toppling of the old.
520	0		_aEurope-influenced religious establishment and the emergence of Baptists and Methodists; the informal, unofficial "establishment" of folk religious formations; the rapid growth of separate and independent black churches and denominations; and the beginning of the Holiness and Pentecostal movements. Internal forces are also constantly at work in the religious South, says Hill. He points to a medley of sacred and secular concerns, manifested as "freedoms," that have driven.
520	0		_areligious history from the bottom up and fueled the seemingly constant splinterings and regroupings of some denominations. Among them are the freedoms from church and theological systems; from constraining conventions of polite society; from domination by higher social classes or by traditions perceived as inviolate; and from restraints on holistic human expression, in spirit, body, and emotions. The story of southern religion, says Hill, is one of courage, imagination,
520	0		_aand persistence. Not only does One Name but Several Faces bring into sharper focus some of the contours of the religious South, it also affirms the value of some challenging new trends in historiography that allow for southern religious complexity and division without deadening or downplaying its dynamism.
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650		0	_aProtestant churches _zSouthern States.
653	0		_aProtestant churches _aHistory
653	0		_aUnited States
830		0	_aJack N. and Addie D. Averitt lecture series ; _vno. 5.
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