The Sacred Mirror
Evangelicalism, Honor, and Identity in the Deep South, 1790-1860
By Robert Elder
288 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6869-7
Published: November 2021 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-2756-4
Published: May 2016 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-4563-4
Published: March 2016 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-2757-1
Published: March 2016
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Making use of original sources such as diaries, correspondence, periodicals, and church records, Elder recasts the relationship between evangelicalism and secular honor in the South, proving the two concepts are connected in much deeper ways than have ever been previously understood.
About the Author
Robert Elder is assistant professor of history at Valparaiso University.
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âOccasionally an author treats the academy to a book that challenges everything we think we know in a given area. . . . The Sacred Mirror . . . is such a book.â--Journal of Southern Religion
âThis study of white evangelical beliefs and practices . . . convincingly challenges the historiography. Recommended.â--Choice
âAn excellent work of religious and cultural history. . . . Highly recommended for historians of nineteenth-century America, as well as for the classroom and the grad seminar.â--Journal of the Civil War Era
âElder has written a pivotal book, which stops the common narrative of evangelical arrival and accommodation in its tracks. In its place, Elder offers a nuanced argument about the relationship between honor culture and evangelicalism in the Deep South, one that identifies their common sources, persistent tensions, and shared ideals, for good and ill."â--Baptist History and Heritage
âAn excellent and important book that succeeds in reframing a major historiographical debate. It should be essential reading among historians of religion and of the American South.â--Journal of American History
âIn this elegant and exciting book, Robert Elder sets himself apart by arguing that white southerners hastened modernityâs arrival when they accepted evangelicalism. Elderâs highly nuanced discussion of the relationship between the âsecularâ culture of southern honor and the âsacredâ culture of southern evangelicalism establishes him as part of a robust movement of scholars quick to call attention to the âmodernâ elements of intellectual discourse in the antebellum South.â--Charles F. Irons, Elon University
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