By Samuel S. Hill
Evangelical Protestant teams have ruled non secular existence within the South because the early 19th century. at the same time the conservative Protestantism commonly linked to the South has risen in social and political prominence during the usa in fresh a long time, even though, non secular tradition within the South itself has grown more and more assorted. The zone has obvious a surge of immigration from different elements of the USA in addition to from Latin the US, Asia, and the center East, bringing elevated visibility to Catholicism, Islam, and Asian religions within the as soon as solidly Protestant Christian South.In this quantity of the recent Encyclopedia of Southern tradition, participants have revised entries from the unique Encyclopedia on issues starting from spiritual broadcasting to snake dealing with and extra new entries on such themes as Asian religions, Latino faith, New Age faith, Islam, local American faith, and social activism. With the contributions of greater than 60 gurus within the field--including Paul Harvey, unswerving Jones, Wayne Flynt, and Samuel F. Weber--this quantity is an accessibly written, up to date connection with non secular tradition within the American South.
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There are many Lutheran, Brethren, and Mennonite churches in the areas settled by Germans, such as parts of Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, with mission churches elsewhere. Some Mennonite groups have more recently bought farms and formed communities in Kentucky. In addition, there are Episcopal and Catholic churches, but their doctrine in Appalachia is not different from what it is elsewhere. Also there are Jewish synagogues in the larger towns of the area, and in recent years Middle Easterners, Asians, and others have settled in the region and formed worship groups.
Has been a major pilgrimage destination. But among Hindus in the Southeast one increasingly hears mentioned in the same breath the Hindu Temple of Atlanta. ’’ Generally speaking, American Hindus appoint temple priests who are trained in India and come from Brahmin families. At the Hindu Temple in Atlanta, for instance, seven priests and their families reside on the compound. Many temple communities in America lack the means to support a resident Brahmin priest and must find innovative ways to carry out the ritual duties.
High pulpits and horseshoe-shaped balconies continued to characterize the interiors throughout most of the th century. Like the rest of the nation, the South was overrun by stylistic revivals in the th century. Greek Revival buildings appeared in the s and continued to be popular in neoclassical forms among Methodists and Baptists up through the s. C. This style flourished off and on until World War II, reaching its apex in the Duke Chapel at Duke University. There were two Gothic revivals—a rather primitive one in the s and a more academic one in the early th century.