Contents
Acknowledgments
Southern Churches in Crisis Revisited
Studies since 1990: A Representative List
Thirty Years Later: An Interpretive Essay
Introduction
Part I. The Distinctiveness of the Southern Religious Picture
1. The Changing South and Regional Religion: An Overview
2. The Southern Accent in Religion
3. The Peculiarity of the Southern Religious Situation
4. The Shaping Forces in the Southern Religious Heritage
Part II. The Essence of Popular Southern Protestantism
5. The Central Theme
6. Theological Fruits of the Central Theme
7. Practical Fruits of the Central Theme
Part III. Classification of Popular Southern Protestantism
8. Southern Religion in Relation to Historical Christianity
9. Church-type, Sect-type
Part IV. Beyond Analysis: The Church in a Changing Society
10. The Uses of Religion in the South
11. The Threat of Rejection
12. The Danger of Irresponsibility
Notes
Index