Contents
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 Era
8. “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 2010
Appendix 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