| Southern Religion in the World: Three Stories Subjects: Protestantism -- Southern States -- Influence; Pentecostalism -- Southern States -- Influence; Gospel music -- Southern States; Price Frank W. (Frank Wilson) 1895–1974 -- Influence; Chiang Kai-shek 1887–1975; Thurman Howard 1900–1981 -- Influence; T; Religion in the American South emerged as part of a globalized, transnational movement of peoples from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Ironically, it then came to be seen as the most localized, provincial kind of religion in America, one famously hostile to outside ideas, influences, and agitators. Yet southern religious expressions, particularly in music, have exercised enormous intellectual and cultural influence. Despite southern religion's provincialism during the era of evangelical dominance and racial proscriptions, the kinds of expressions coming from the American South have been influential across the globe. PAUL HARVEY is a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era and Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical South (Georgia). |