Description:
Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him offers a compelling examination of the powerful role religion played in reshaping gender during the transformative New South era. Drawing from church archives, personal correspondence, sermons, memoirs, and denominational records, Colin B. Chapell reveals how Baptists, Methodists, and the emerging Holiness movement developed competing visions of masculinity and femininity in a rapidly changing society. By placing theology at the center of debates over identity, family, and social order, this important study provides fresh insight into the religious foundations of Southern culture and the enduring influence of faith on American understandings of gender.
Review Quotes:
"Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him is a significant contribution by an emerging scholar who has convincingly conveyed the relevance of his topic to the role that faith played in identity construction in the twentieth-century South."--Journal of Southern Religion
"This volume covers much important material, presents a coherent and well-organized argument, and introduces points right at the cutting edge of the field of religion and southern history."--Paul Harvey, author of Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical South and coauthor of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America