TY - BOOK ID - 77866972 TI - Religion AU - Hill, Samuel S. AU - University of Mississippi. PY - 2006 SN - 1469616572 0807877166 9780807877166 9781469616575 9798893131598 PB - Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - Southern States KW - American South KW - American Southeast KW - Dixie (U.S. : Region) KW - Former Confederate States KW - South, The KW - Southeast (U.S.) KW - Southeast United States KW - Southeastern States KW - Southern United States KW - United States, Southern KW - Civilization KW - Religion KW - Religious life and customs KW - Christianity KW - Religions KW - Church history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77866972 AB - Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century. Even as the conservative Protestantism typically associated with the South has risen in social and political prominence throughout the United States in recent decades, however, religious culture in the South itself has grown increasingly diverse. The region has seen a surge of immigration from other parts of the United States as well as from Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, bringing increased visibility to Catholicism, Islam, and Asian religions in the once solidly Protestant Christian South. In this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, contributors have revised entries from the original Encyclopedia on topics ranging from religious broadcasting to snake handling and added new entries on such topics as Asian religions, Latino religion, New Age religion, Islam, Native American religion, and social activism. With the contributions of more than 60 authorities in the field--including Paul Harvey, Loyal Jones, Wayne Flynt, and Samuel F. Weber--this volume is an accessibly written, up-to-date reference to religious culture in the American South. ER -