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Southern Religion

James Henley Thornwell and the Metaphysical Confederacy

By Zachary Garris

A review of The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values (Second Edition; Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999) by James Farmer The role of religion leading up to the War… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • James Farmer
  • James Henley Thornwell
  • Slavery
  • Southern Religion
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  • Zachary Garris

The Southern (Catholic) Tradition

By Casey Chalk

When asked why he was a Catholic, Southern author Walker Percy liked to provocatively respond, “What else is there?” Savannah-born writer Flannery O’Connor, a Catholic or Irish heritage, once asserted that she was a “hillbilly… »

  • Casey Chalk
  • Confederate Catholics
  • Southern Religion

The Colored Sacred Harp

By Tom Daniel

I have written here before about the history and mechanics of Sacred Harp singing, shape-notes, and Singing Schools.  James Kibler has delivered some truly excellent talks about Singing Billy Walker and the origins of Amazing… »

  • B.F. White
  • Colored Sacred Harp
  • Judge Jackson
  • New South
  • Singing Billy Walker
  • Southern Music
  • Southern Religion
  • Tom Daniel

How Secession and War Divided American Presbyterianism

By Zachary Garris

Presbyterianism has a rich legacy in American history. The Presbyterian church was founded in Scotland by John Knox (d. 1572), a disciple of John Calvin. Along with the Dutch Reformed and New England Puritans, the… »

  • Robert Lewis Dabney
  • Southern Religion
  • War for Southern Independence
  • Zachary Garris

Plodding Through the “ills of life”

By Forrest L. Marion

Especially in unsettling times, it is helpful for Christians to examine the lives of faithful saints of old, who finished their race well. One brother and father in the faith, today perhaps remembered in Baptist… »

  • Elder Martin Ross
  • Forrest Marion
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Religion

A Forgotten Spiritual Hero

By Karen Stokes

Daniel Baker (1791-1857) is all but forgotten today, but in the first half of the nineteenth century this Presbyterian minister was a well-known and profoundly influential evangelist in America.  Born in Midway, Georgia, he was… »

  • Daniel Baker
  • Karen Stokes
  • Southern Religion

Not Just Whistling Dixie

By John Marquardt

There are few Southern hearts that still fail to skip a beat or two when a military band strikes up “Dixie,” the de facto national anthem of the Confederacy and the song that has undoubtedly… »

  • John Marquardt
  • Singing Billy Walker
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Music
  • Southern Religion

What Religious Statistics Can Tell Us About The War Between the States

By James (Jim) Pederson

The role of religion, specifically evangelical protestant religion in the North, is frequently emphasized by gatekeeper historians in framing the causes and consequences of the War Between the States. This stands today as a sort… »

  • James Pederson
  • Southern Religion
  • War for Southern Independence

“Deplorable” 19th-Century American Catholics and the 21st-Century Culture War

By Jerry Salyer

A review of Faith and Fury: The Rise of Catholicism During the Civil War (Ewtn Publishing, 2019) by Fr. Charles Connor The abolitionists are wrong as to their point of departure. They begin, consciously or… »

  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • Jerry Salyer
  • Southern Religion
  • War for Southern Independence

The Revolt Against Christian Civilization: The Southern View

By Boyd Cathey

Southerners, of all Americans, have been the most acute and the most persistent in their analyses of what has ailed and threatened our culture, certainly since the end of the War for Southern Independence. Only… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • I'll Take My Stand
  • M.E. Bradford
  • Robert Lewis Dabney
  • Southern Religion

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