Volume 17 (2015)
Panel Book Review
Critical Conversations
We observe the fifteenth anniversary of Donald G. Mathews's article in the Journal of Southern Religion by embarking on another first for the journal. Critical Conversations attempts to address contemporary issues through the lens of critical reflection. In this case, the fifteenth anniversary of Mathews's breakthrough article coincides with renewed conversations about how racism functions in the U.S. With an introduction to the four pieces that will appear in a series of roll outs, Ed Blum helps us understand the importance of the initial article both to its content and its format. We hope this conversation sparks renewed interest in the ways violence shapes religion in the American context, particulary in its southern form.
- A Re-Introduction to Donald Mathews and Spectacle Lynchings
- Ed Blum
- African Americans Speak to Spectacle Lynchings
- Mary Beth Mathews
- Lynching, Visualization, and Visibility
- Lincoln A. Mullen
Forums
Southern Civil Religions
As a panel at the Southern Intellectual History Circle in February, four essays examined the usefulness of civil religion as a category of study for the Lost Cause and civil religion more broadly in the South. Charles Reagan Wilson responded to the essays.
- From Prizefights to Praying Colonels
- Art Remillard
- What's Wrong with This Picture?
- Keith Harper
- John the Evangelist Revisited
- Edward R. Crowther
- To Know Good Blood
- Chad Seales
- Assessing the Lost Cause and Southern Religion
- Charles Reagan Wilson
Reviews
- Lydia Bean. The Politics of Evangelical Identity: Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada
- Reviewed by Randall Balmer
- Carl L. Kell, ed. The Exiled Generations: Legacies of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War
- Reviewed by Laura R. Levens
- Jessica Madison. In Subjection: Church Discipline in the Early American South, 1760-1830
- Reviewed by Jewel L. Spangler
December 9, 2015
- David C.R. Heisser and Stephen J. White. Patrick Lynch, 1817-1882: Third Catholic Bishop of Charleston
- Reviewed by Andrew Stern
- Grant Wacker. America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation
- Reviewed by John Turner
- Bruce T. Gourley. Crucible of Faith and Freedom: Baptists and the American Civil War
- Reviewed by Timothy L. Wesley
- Michael Pasquier, ed. Gods of the Mississippi
- Reviewed by Matthew J. Cressler
- T. Felder Dorn. Challenges on the Emmaus Road: Episcopal Bishops Confront Slavery, Civil War, and Emancipation
- Reviewed by Luke E. Harlow
- Anne C. Loveland. Conflict and Change in the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps since 1945
- Reviewed by Nicholas Pellegrino
June 24, 2015
- Steven D. Smith. The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom
- Reviewed by John Ragosta
- Brantley W. Gasaway. Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice
- Reviewed by Dan Wells
- Melody Maxwell. The Woman I Am: Southern Baptist Women’s Writings 1906–2006
- Reviewed by Anne Blue Wills
May 15, 2015
- Molly Worthen. Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism
- Patrick Jackson
- Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon, eds. Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965, Volume 2
- Reviewed by Joseph T. Reiff
- Angela Tarango Choosing the Jesus Way: American Indian Pentacostals and the Fight for Indigenous Principle
- Reviewed by Andrea McComb Sanchez
- Nancy D. Wadsworth. Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing
- Reviewed by Peter Slade
- Kate Sweeney. American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of American Mourning
- Reviewed by Jamie Warren