...Donald G. Mathews The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830–1900 . By Friedman Jean E. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1985 . Pp. xvi , 180 , $19.95 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 407 Squier s...

...Curtis W. Ellison Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Curtis W. Ellison Keeping Faith: Evangelical Performance in Country Music It s Saturday night at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. The date is 22 Janu­ ary 1994, and country music fans, artists, family, friends...

... JAMES D. BLOOM The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America. By Barbara Leslie Epstein. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1981. Pp. 188. $17.95. 104 The South Atlantic Quarterly This book is an attempt to illuminate the changing nature of relationships...

...Melani McAlister In the 1990s and early 2000s, the civil war in Sudan and the fate of Christians there became the abiding international preoccupation of US evangelicals. Framing the complex issues in Sudan as straightforward matters of religious and racial oppression, the Americans became activists...

... British evangelicals (who had their own, distinct reverence for Paul) used numbers and statistics to imagine what we might understand today as a “global Christianity.” © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Matthew Engelke Number and the Imagination of Global Christianity; or, Mediation and Immediacy...

... to con­ sult. COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY CARLOS R. ALLEN, JR. Fathers of the Victorians: The Age of Wilberforce. By Ford K. Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961. Pp. 569. $9.50. There are different ways of seeing the history of the Evangelical Movement in the Church of England in the later...

..., I came across a page manuscript and two shorter pieces, written between and by ‘‘native’’ evangelical workers, designated as catechists, in central India. I skimmed over the longer manuscript, reading...

... to Armageddon. LaHaye and Jenkins have constructed fast-paced and plot-driven stories that are also generic hybrids, combining traditional evangelical homily with science-fiction-like threats and action-adventure thrills...

...Wesley M. Gewehr Copyright © 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 THE RISE OF THE POPULAR CHURCHES IN VIRGINIA, 1740-1790 WESLEY M. GEWEHR Denison University THE EIGHTEENTH century was a period of vital im­ portance in the history of religious movements. It was the period of a great evangelical...

... Morality, 1780-1845, and of articles on religion and reform. I The South and evangelical Protestantism have had a peculiarly inti­ mate relationship for perhaps two hundred years. As a result, the self-consciousness of the region has been partially attributed to its religion. This identification, readily...

... to the control of the Evangelical party is given. We are also told in general terms of the purchases made by Charles Simeon and by the trust fund that he set up. It would be a val­ uable contribution to Church history if someone could examine in de­ tail the effectiveness of this tactic. Perhaps the least...

... that as the Wesleyan Movement and the Evangelical Revival associated with it constitute the most important religious development in eighteenth-century England, so the Oxford Movement is the most significant factor in the deepening of religious sensibilities in England in the nineteenth.6 And Newman is at the heart...

... an abstraction for Squier, one can always turn back to Woolf and find there a place which, like Words­ worth s Lake District and Joyce s Dublin, exists precisely as the writer envi­ sioned it. DUKE UNIVERSITY ELGIN W. MELLOWN The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900. By Jean E...

... the segregated realm of church history, Miller was already speculating boldly about the cultural significance of such phe­ nomena. By his account, nineteenth-century evangelicalism was more than the particulars of raucous camp meetings, colorful evangelists, and mis­ sionary enterprise. These were...

... with the University of North Carolina rested on a community of interest and feeling between spokesmen for the state s evangelical churches and the ruling class represented by the Democratic Party s leadership. The doctrine of the spiritual nature of the church which encouraged Protestants to equate consensual...

..., primarily as a literary figure. Carlyle s Luther was isolated, a giant outside his times. Ecclesiastics, on the other hand, twisted the historical Luther to fit the purposes of party propaganda. Whereas the Evangelicals, claiming him as one of their own, saw him in their own narrow image as a Biblicist...

... to a timeless evangelical mis- sion. Historians and rhetorical scholars have noted that ever since America’s founding, its presidents have relied on any number of religious phrases to signal their assent to general Christian principles. But President Bush offers more than ceremonial platitudes. His speeches...

...- gious activities. Indeed they were not alone, because everyone who dis- 6607 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY / Fall 2001 100:4 / sheet 21 of 226 cussed Rosenberger in court and in print acknowledged that WAP was pursu- ing the evangelizing mission it announced in the first...

... in the late nineteenth century as a distinct version of the highly respectable evangelical protestantism a version committed to a superna­ tural, biblically based, traditional faith militantly opposed to liberal the­ ology and the cultural changes that such a theology accommodated. Essen­ tials...

... ministers who belong to what is generally known as the evangelical wing of Protestantism. The author devotes primary attention to Lyman and Henry Ward Beecher, Albert Barnes, Finney, Peter Cartwright, Jacob Knapp, Francis Wayland, Joshua Leavitt, and Horace Bushnell. The study opens with the Finney revivals...