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Southern Baptists ObservedMultiple Perspectives on a Changing DenominationAmmerman, Nancy Tatom, ed. Paper Edition, $21.50s Paper ISBN: 0-87049-770-7 Status: In Print Publication Date: 
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DescriptionThis interdisciplinary collection is the first to bring together a broad variety of perspectives on the ideological, political, and cultural struggles of the nation's largest Protestant denomination—and the South's dominant religious institution—the Southern Baptist Convention.During the 1960s and the 1970s, the Southern Baptist Convention was a rising star in America's religious future, enjoying appreciable growth while other denominations were experiencing decline. As the South modernized, the SBC became increasingly progressive while retaining its evangelical fervor. But by the end of the 1970s a conservative movement was challenging the progressives, and by 1990 it had wrested control from them. In this volume academics and journalists, insiders and outsiders, liberals and conservatives examine the events that threw the Southern Baptists into conflict, describe how various people and institutions within the denomination have responded to the conflict, and offer projections for the future of this diverse organization. Both a collection of explanations and a look at the enterprise of explaining, these multifaceted essays invite us to examine this conflict through various disciplinary lenses and, at the same time, encourage us to examine and confront our own opinions. The Editor: Nancy Tatom Ammerman, a Southern Baptist by birth, is the author of Baptist Battles and Bible Believers and an associate professor of sociology of religion at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. | |
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