Volume 20 (2018)
Forums
Southern Cross at Twenty Years (February 16, 2018)
Twenty years ago, the JSR published a featured review forum on the then recently released Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. The book would win the Bancroft Prize in 1998, and it has appeared in undergraduate classrooms and graduate seminars ever since. We decided to revisit the book at twenty years. The four contributors engage the books last effects and Christine Heyrman reflects on how the book set a particular trajectory for her research.
Christine Leigh Heyrman, Reflection
Jason Bivins, Reflections on Christine Heyrman’s Southern Cross
John Corrigan, Fear, Sex, and Language in the Bible Belt
Reviews
August 28, 2018
John Corrigan, ed. Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World
Reviewed by Bradford J. Wood
Julia C. Duin. In the House of the Serpent Handler: A Story of Faith and Fleeting Fame in the Age of Social Media
Reviewed by Michael J. McVicar
John Hayes. Hard, Hard Religion: Interracial Faith in the Poor South
Reviewed by Heath W. Carter
April 26, 2018
D. H. Dilbeck. Frederick Douglass: American Prophet
Reviewed by Daniel L. Fountain
Joseph L. Locke. Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion
Reviewed by Michael Phillips
Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews. Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism Between the Wars
Reviewed by Matthew J. Zacharia Harper
April E. Holm. A Kingdom Divided: Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era
Reviewed by Randall M. Miller
James Hudnut-Beumler. Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table: Contemporary Christianities in the South
Reviewed by Marie W. Dallam
Imani Perry. May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
Reviewed by Kyla Morgan Young
Shari Rabin. Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America
Reviewed by Bryan Edward Stone
Judith Weisenfeld. New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration
Reviewed by Darrius D. Hills