The Future of Southern Religious History
In the 1960s and 1970s, a group of scholars began to rewrite our understanding of the religious history of the South. Samuel Hill, Donald Mathews, Albert Raboteau, and Mechal Sobel examined white and black religious traditions in the region, setting them in new contexts and reopening what had seemed to be a “closed” history of white evangelical dominance and black suppression. Since then, employing tools from a variety of disciplines, scholars have opened up numerous research avenues in a quest to understand both historically and in the present this most religiously Protestant of American regions.
Our roundtable panel will assess, critique, and chart a future path for studies of religion in the South. We have chosen the panel/roundtable format to make our session one of dialogue between panelists and audience. To facilitate this dialogue, the comments from the panelists will be published via a blog which will both publicize the panel and get the panel “going” prior to the actual meeting itself.
- Paul Harvey, University of Colorado
- Alison Greene, Yale University
- Michael Pasquier, Louisiana State University
- Randall Stephens, Eastern Nazarene College
- Curtis Evans, University of Chicago
- Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
- Lauren Winner, Duke University
- Rudy V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University
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