Recovering the Margins of American Religious History, a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together essays from Harrell’s colleagues, peers, and students that explore
Timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the First Baptist Church of Raleigh, North Carolina, a history of the house of worship looks at not just the congregation but also the church's place wi
Public discussion about the relationship between religion and public life in Canada can be heated at times, and scholars have recently focused on the historical study of the many expressions of this r
Profiles the life of Baptist minister John Harper, who placed his only child in a lifeboat as the Titanic was sinking and then began to save the lives of other passengers and offer salvation to the lo
Baptists in the South, rapidly rising to challenge Methodists numerically helped align Southern religion with the South's black slave culture. The birth of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1945, for
Father Mercer tells the story of the life and labors of Jesse Mercer, a leader in Georgia Baptist life during the first half of the nineteenth century. His influence was felt in many areas as he was p
The Shooting Salvationist chronicles what may be the most famous story you have never heard. In the 1920’s, the Reverend J. Frank Norris railed against vice and conspiracies he saw everywhere to a con
Chronicles key events in Baptist history to trace the story of the denomination's voluntary approach to the Christian faith, covering topics in brief, narrative chapters while exploring essential them
The sermons of Charles Haddon Spurgeon were the pinnacle of preaching in mid-nineteenth-century England. They are still powerful and widely influential today. This five-volume set is a compilation of
Are church denominations necessary; do they even have a future? Such questions are explored in Southern Baptists, Evangelicals, and the Future of Denominationalism, based on a conference of the same n
An unforgettable memoir about growing up Southern, grappling with faith, and confronting a childhood colored by religion, Bible Belt culture, and a mother who minces words better than a food processor
Explores the life and religious and historical landscape surrounding Benjamin Randall, who studied under revival minister George Whitefield, broke from the Congregational church and became one of the
The Stone-Campbell Movement was born as a Christian renewal movement in the early nineteenth century and led by Barton Stone and Thomas and Alexander Campbell. In North America today it finds expressi
With 16.3 million members and 44,000 churches, the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Baptist group in the world, and the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Unlike the so-ca
