Ye that are men now serve him : radical holiness theology and gender in the South

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Label

Ye that are men now serve him : radical holiness theology and gender in the South

Title remainder

radical holiness theology and gender in the South

Statement of responsibility

Colin B. Chapell

Creator

• Chapell, Colin B., 1982-

Author

• Chapell, Colin B., 1982-

Subject

• Baptists -- Southern States -- History
• Church history
• Evangelicalism
• Evangelicalism -- United States
• History
• Holiness movement
• Holiness movement -- Southern States
• Methodist Church
• Methodist Church -- Southern States -- History
• Sex role -- Religious aspects | Christianity
• Sex role -- Religious aspects | Christianity | History -- 19th century
• Sex role -- Religious aspects | Christianity | History -- 20th century
• Southern States
• Southern States -- Church history -- 19th century
• Southern States -- Church history -- 20th century
• United States
• 1800-1999
• Baptists

Genre

• History
• Church history

Language

eng

Summary

Modernity remade much of the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and was nowhere more transformational than in the American South. In the wake of the Civil War, the region not only formed new legal, financial, and social structures, but citizens of the South also faced disorienting uncertainty about personal identity and even gender itself. Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him traces the changes in southern gender roles during the New South period of 1877-1915 and demonstrates that religion is the key to perceiving how constructions of gender changed. The Civil War cleaved southerners from the culture they had developed organically during antebellum decades, raising questions that went to the very heart of selfhood: What does it mean to be a man? How does a good woman behave? Unmoored from traditional anchors of gender, family, and race, southerners sought guidance from familiar sources: scripture and their churches. In Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him, Colin Chapell traces how concepts of gender evolved within the majority Baptist and Methodist denominations as compared to the more fluid and innovative Holiness movement. Grounded in expansive research into the archives of the Southern Baptist Convention; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; and the Holiness movement, Chapell's writing is also enlivened by a rich trove of primary sources: diaries, sermons, personal correspondence, published works, and unpublished memoirs. Chapell contrasts the majority Baptist and Methodist view of gender with the relatively radical approaches of the emerging Holiness movement, thereby bringing into focus how subtle differences in belief gave rise to significantly different ideas of gender roles. Scholars have explored class, race, and politics as factors that contributed to contemporary southern identity, and Chapell restores theology to its intuitive place at the center of southern identity.--Provided by publisher

Member of

• Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BR535

LC item number

.C434 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Religion and American culture