Description
Book SynopsisExamines how religious belief reshaped concepts of gender during the New South period that took place from 1877 to 1915 in ways that continue to manifest today. Grounded in expansive research, Chapell's writing is enlivened by a rich trove of primary sources: diaries, sermons, personal correspondence, published works, and unpublished memoirs.
Table of Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Establishing the Standards of Evangelical Identity
- Chapter 1. Baptists and Methodists in the New South
- Chapter 2. Faithful Baptist Families and Women
- Chapter 3. Masterful Manhood in the Southern Baptist Convention
- Chapter 4. The Manly Soldiers of Methodism
- Chapter 5. Methodist Women as Home Missionaries
- Part II: Radical Theology and Radical Identity
- Chapter 6. Defining Holiness
- Chapter 7. Consecrated Regardless of Sex
- Chapter 8. Perfect Masculine Love
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
