Author: Sam Porter JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Sam Jones' Own Book
Author: Sam Porter JonesPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570038273
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Stephens, which explores the rise and reputation of Jones and the reception of his book.
At the Altar of Lynching
Author: Donald G. MathewsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107182972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Offers a new interpretation of the lynching of Sam Hose through the lens of the religious culture in the evangelical American South.
Library of Southern Literature
Author: Edwin Anderson AldermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Library of Southern Literature: Biographical dictionary of authors
Author: Edwin Anderson AldermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The Annual American Catalog, 1908
Author: Laughter in the Amen Corner
Author: Kathleen MinnixPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820336300
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Samuel Porter Jones (1847–1906)—“or just plain Sam Jones,” as he preferred to be called—was the foremost southern evangelist of the nineteenth century. With his high-spirited, often coarse, humor and his hyperbolic style, he excited audiences around the country and became a key influence on Billy Sunday, “Gypsy” Smith, and scores of lesser known evangelists. A leading political activist, he played an important role in the selling of a new industrialized South and was thus a clerical counterpart to his friend Henry Grady. In Laughter in the Amen Corner, the first scholarly biography of Jones, Kathleen Minnix reveals a figure of fascinating contradictions. Jones was an alcoholic who became a pivotal supporter of the prohibition movement. He advocated women's rights when most men preferred to keep women on pedestals, yet he followed the South in its drift towards malignant racism. He praised Catholics in an age that feared the “Romish heresy,” and he embraced Jews as fellow children of God when many saw them as Christ-killers. Even so, he was shrill in his insistence that Americans worship a Protestant God, and like many nativists, he called for the deportation of the “trash” who had landed at Ellis Island. Progressive in some respects and reactionary in others, he was, in the words of one contemporary, “a sanctified circus in full swing.” Deftly written and exhaustively researched, Laughter in the Amen Corner offers the first in-depth assessment of Sam Jones's impact on revivalism, the progressive movement, and the history of the South.
American Religious Leaders
Author: Timothy L. HallPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108060
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Profiles the lives and achievements of more than 270 spiritual leaders, arranged alphabetically, who made major contributions to the history of American religious life.
The Annual American Catalog, 1900-1909
Author: The New International Encyclopaedia
Author: Frank Moore ColbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Author: