philosophes<\/em> Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Montesquieu. Deceased French kings, Napoleon Bonaparte, and figures from the Haitian Revolution like Toussaint Louverture and Alexandre P\u00e9tion also appear in the s\u00e9ance records. Clearly the influence of the Atlantic world’s age of revolutions did not conclude in the early nineteenth-century. Reverberations of the French Revolution swept across gulf Louisiana through the Civil War and into Reconstruction. Conversing with such an illustrious spiritual republic, the members of the Cercle Harmonique reinvigorated the French Revolution’s cry for \u201cLibert\u00e9! Egalit\u00e9! Fraternit\u00e9!\u201d Local, national, and global contexts shaped Afro-Creole Spiritualism in New Orleans. This was southern religion and it was Atlantic world religion.<\/p>\nIt is with this research project of mine in mind that I contacted our forum contributors. I encouraged them to think loosely about the Atlantic world in terms of chronology and geography. I wanted us to expand on concepts like transnational, globalization, and international.<\/p>\n
In his essay \u201cEvangelical Religion in the Revolutionary South: An Atlantic Perspective,\u201d Christopher Jones turns our attention to southern and Caribbean Methodists. He tracks the rise of Methodism from a small group, to a national denomination, to \u201ca full-fledged transatlantic movement.\u201d Along the way, Jones uncovers a little-known group of black Loyalists who take their Methodism from the southern U.S. to the Bahamas and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n
Thomas Little\u2019s contribution, \u201cEvangelical Christianity in the Lower South: The Creation of a Southern Tradition in the Early Modern Atlantic,\u201d rescues the religiosity of the Lower South from historiographical neglect. Little explores how southern colonial religion was vibrant and diverse long before the Second Great Awakening. Additionally, he shows us how southern evangelicalism developed a particular accent.<\/p>\n
Alexis Wells examines how enslaved women’s bodies became a crossroads of African religions, Christianity, and slavery’s brutality in \u201cThe Gendered Ethics of Female Enslavement: Searching For Southern Slave Women\u2019s Religions in the African Atlantic.\u201d With her focus on women, Wells uncovers how sociological and cosmological foundations from around the Atlantic world generated \u201cwoman-gendered ethical cultures in the U.S. South.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finally, Jon Sensbach provides the response to our forum. In many ways, there is no other scholar who could fulfill this role better. Sensbach authored two articles that established a structural frame for this forum: \u201cBeyond the Bible Belt: Indians, Africans, and the New Synthesis of Eighteenth-Century Southern Religious History\u201d in 2004\u2019s Religion in the American South: Protestants and Others in History and Culture <\/em>(UNC Press, 2004) and 2007\u2019s \u201cReligion in the Early South in an Age of Atlantic Empire,\u201d published in the Journal of Southern History<\/em>. With these two essays in mind, we turn our attention to the relationship between southern religion and the Atlantic world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor’s Note Emily Suzanne Clark Emily Suzanne Clark is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University JSR Volume 18 Cite this Article Open-access license Emily Suzanne Clark, “Editor’s Note,”\u00a0Journal of Southern Religion (18) (2016): jsreligion.org\/vol18\/clark. This work is licensed CC-BY. You are encouraged to make free use of this publication. What does southern religion…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-243","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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