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Religion in Mississippi
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Religion in Mississippi Hardcover - 2001

by Sparks, Randy J

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  • Title Religion in Mississippi
  • Author Sparks, Randy J
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS
  • Date August 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 17275587-20
  • ISBN 9781578063611 / 1578063612
  • Weight 1.73 lbs (0.78 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.32 x 1.25 in (23.47 x 16.05 x 3.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Mid-South
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Mississippi
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Mississippi - Church history, Mississippi - Religion
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00051362
  • Dewey Decimal Code 277.62

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From the publisher

In the 1600s Colonial French settlers brought Christianity into the lands that are now the state of Mississippi. Throughout the period of French rule and the period of Spanish dominion that followed, Roman Catholicism remained the principal religion. By the time that statehood was achieved in 1817, Mississippi was attracting Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, and other Protestant evangelical faiths at a remarkable pace, and by the twentieth century, religion in Mississippi was dominantly Protestant and evangelical.

In this book Randy J. Sparks traces the roots of evangelical Christianity in the state and shows how the evangelicals became a force of cultural revolution. They embraced the poorer segments of society, welcomed high populations of both women and African Americans, and deeply influenced ritual and belief in the state's vision of Christianity. In the 1830s as the Mississippi economy boomed, so did evangelicalism. As Protestant faiths became wedded to patriarchal standards, slaveholding, and southern political tradition, seeds were sown for the war that would erupt three decades later.

Until Reconstruction many Mississippi churches comprised biracial congregations and featured women in prominent roles, but as the Civil War and the racial split cooled the evangelicals' liberal fervor and drastically changed the democratic character of their religion into arch conservatism, a strong but separate Black church emerged. As dominance by Protestant conservatives solidified, Jews, Catholics, and Mormons struggled to retain their religious identities while conforming to standards set by white Protestant society.

As Sparks explores the dissonance between the state's powerful evangelical voice and Mississippi's social and cultural mores, he reveals the striking irony of faith and society in conflict. By the time of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, religion, formerly a liberal force, had become one of the leading proponents of segregation, gender inequality, and ethnic animosity among whites in the Magnolia State. Among Blacks, however, the churches were bastions of racial pride and resistance to the forces of oppression.

First line

From the opulence of the Palace of Versailles, Louis XIV and his ministers laid plans for an expansive empire in the Americas worthy of a Sun King.

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 06/11/2001, Page 83

About the author

Randy J. Sparks, an associate professor of history at Tulane University, is author of On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Evangelical Religion in Mississippi, 1773-1876.

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