Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-315) and index.

Introduction: Southern Baptist and southern religious history -- pt. 1. Religion, race, and reconstruction: Redeemed by the blood: white Baptist organizing in the south, 1865 -1895 -- A wall of the Lord 'round me: black Baptist organizing in the south, 1865 -1895 -- pt. 2. Religious cultures and the social order in the new south: These untutored masses: spirituality and respectability among white Southern Baptist -- God stepped in my soul: spirituality and respectability among black Southern Baptist -- The character of ministerial manliness: white Southern Baptist -- Intriguers and idealists: black Southern Baptist ministers, 1870 -- 1925 -- pt. 3. Southern Baptist progressivism: Scientific management in our church-craft: white Southern Baptist progressivism, 1895 -- 1925 -- The Holy Spirit come to us and forbid the negro taking a second place: black Southern Baptists in the age of Jim Crow -- Conclusion: religion, race and culture in the south.

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