{"id":5,"date":"2018-01-31T18:35:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T18:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:23:17","slug":"current-issue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/current-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\n\t\tVolume 20 (2018)\n\t<\/h2>\n<h3>Articles<\/h3>\n<p>Laurence Connell, <a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/connell\">Towards a Congregational Explanation for the Christian Right: Bellevue Baptist Church and the Republicanization of American Evangelicalism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Peter Slade, <a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/slade\">A Misplaced Hope: Howard Kester, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, and the Failed Attempt to Mobilize White Moderate Protestants in Support of Desegregation, 1952\u20131957<\/a><\/p>\n\t<h3>Forums<\/h3>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/southerncrossforum\"><em>Southern Cross<\/em> at Twenty Years<\/a> (February 16, 2018)<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/current-issue\/heyrman_southern\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-909\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/files\/2018\/02\/heyrman_southern.png\" alt=\"Southern Cross book cover\" width=\"100\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>Twenty years ago, the <em>JSR<\/em> published a <a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/Volume1\/Front1.html\">featured review<\/a> forum on the then recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncpress.org\/book\/9780807847169\/southern-cross\/?title_id=249\"><em>Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt<\/em><\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n\t<p>Christine Leigh Heyrman, <a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/heyrman\">Reflection<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jason Bivins, <a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/bivins\">Reflections on Christine Heyrman\u2019s <em>Southern Cross<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>John Corrigan, <a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/corrigan\">Fear, Sex, and Language in the Bible Belt<\/a><\/p>\n\t<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Jemison, <a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/jemison\"><em>Southern Cross <\/em>at Twenty: Reflections on a Field-Changing Work<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Myers Turner, <a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/turner\">Mapping Evangelicalism: Reflecting on Christine Heyrman\u2019s <em>Southern Cross<\/em> through the Lens of Historical GIS<\/a><\/p>\n\t<h2>Reviews<\/h2>\n\t<p>August 28, 2018<\/p>\n<p>John Corrigan, ed.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/wood\"><em>Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by\u00a0Bradford J. Wood<\/p>\n<p>Julia C. Duin.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/mcvicar\"><em>In the House of the Serpent Handler: A Story of Faith and Fleeting Fame in the Age of Social Media<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by\u00a0Michael J. McVicar<\/p>\n<p>John Hayes.\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/carter\">Hard, Hard Religion: Interracial Faith in the Poor South<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Heath W. Carter<\/p>\n\n\t<p>April 26, 2018<\/p>\n<p>D. H. Dilbeck.\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/fountain\">Frederick Douglass: American Prophet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by\u00a0Daniel L. Fountain<\/p>\n<p>Joseph L. Locke.\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/phillips\/\">Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by\u00a0Michael Phillips<\/p>\n<p>Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/harper\">Doctrine and Race:\u00a0<em>African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism Between the Wars<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by\u00a0Matthew J. Zacharia Harper<\/p>\n\t<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>April E. Holm.<a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/miller\">\u00a0<em>A Kingdom Divided: Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by\u00a0Randall M. Miller<\/p>\n<p>James Hudnut-Beumler.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/dallam\"><em>Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table: Contemporary Christianities in the South<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by\u00a0Marie W. Dallam<\/p>\n<p>Imani Perry.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/young\"><em>May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Kyla Morgan Young<\/p>\n\t<p>Shari Rabin.\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/stone\/\">Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by\u00a0Bryan Edward Stone<\/p>\n<p>Judith Weisenfeld.\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/hills\">New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by\u00a0Darrius D. Hills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume 20 (2018) Articles Laurence Connell, Towards a Congregational Explanation for the Christian Right: Bellevue Baptist Church and the Republicanization of American Evangelicalism &nbsp; Peter Slade, A Misplaced Hope: Howard Kester, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, and the Failed Attempt to Mobilize White Moderate Protestants in Support of Desegregation, 1952\u20131957 Forums Southern Cross at Twenty&hellip;<\/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-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsreligion.org\/vol20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}