TY - BOOK AU - Hampton,Monte Harrell TI - Storm of Words: Science, Religion, and Evolution in the Civil War Era T2 - Religion and American Culture SN - 9780817387624 AV - BX8962 .H36 2014 U1 - 285/.17509034 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - Presbyterian Church KW - Southern States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Christianity and culture KW - United States KW - Religion and science KW - Religion and Science KW - Église presbytérienne KW - États-Unis (Sud) KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - Religion et sciences KW - RELIGION KW - Christianity KW - Presbyterian KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - États-Unis KW - 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "The Presbyterian and Orthodox Idiosyncrasy of Mind"; 2. Navigating by the "Pole-Star": The Engagement with Modernity; 3. A "New and Frisky Science": Race, Religion, and the Response to Anthropology; 4. The Fidelity of a "Handmaid": Genesis and Geology in the Presbyterian South; 5. "A Revolution in Our Church": Founding and Filling the Perkins Professorship; 6. "The Serpent-Trail of Rationalism"; 7. "A Crown Pure and Bright": The Southern Presbyterian Evolution Controversy; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index N2 - Storm of Words is a study of the ways that southern Presbyterians in the wake of the Civil War contended with a host of cultural and theological questions, chief among them developments in natural history and evolution. Southern Presbyterian theologians enjoyed a prominent position in antebellum southern culture. Respected for both their erudition and elite constituency, these theologians identified the southern society as representing a divine, Biblically ordained order. Beginning in the 1840s, however, this facile identification became more difficult to maintain, colliding UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=799543 ER -