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History of Religion in Georgia in the Twentieth Century:
Selected Bibliography of Georgia Room Holdings

Exterior view of church in Georgia, c. 1899-1900

Users should note that this is not a complete bibliography of all materials in the UGA Libraries pertaining to this subject. For more information, please try searching the GIL Catalog and GALILEO, especially databases such as JSTOR, America: History and Life, and Web of Science for other articles on the history of religion in Georgia.

ONLINE RESOURCES

New Georgia Encyclopedia. www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Relevant articles include:
Billy Graham Crusades, Buddhism, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Church of God, Clarence Jordan, Congregation Mickve Israel, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Hinduism, Jacob Rothschild, Jainism, Jewish Community of Atlanta, Judaism and Jews in Georgia, Koinonia Farm, Leo Frank Case, Lost Cause Religion, Ministers' Manifesto, Primitive Baptists, Quakers, Revivals and Camp Meetings, Snake Handlers, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Temple Bombing, Thomas E. Watson, Unitarianism and Universalism in Georgia, Utopians, William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Zoroastrianism

VERTICAL FILES

Biography: Jimmy Carter [all files in a separate drawer at the end of Biography files]; Leo Frank; Billy Graham; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Jacob M. Rothschild

General Information: Catholics (4 folders), Chapel of All Faiths, Christian College of Georgia, Clergy, Columbia Theological Seminary, Convents and Monasteries, Education-Creationism Debate, Episcopal Church (2 folders), Ethnic Groups in Georgia-Jewish, Ethnic Groups in Georgia-Moravians, Ethnic Groups in Georgia-Scots Highlanders, Georgia Baptist Historical Society, Koinonia Farm-Jubilee Partners (2 folders), Lutherans, Mennonites, Methodists (6 folders), Monastery-Trappist, Presbyterians, Quakers, Religion, Salzburgers (2 folders), Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Unitarians, Wesleyan College (4 folders).

SOURCES

Religion in Georgia - General

Bailey, Kenneth K. Southern White Protestantism in the Twentieth Century. Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1968.
BR535 .B3 1968

Cauthen, Kenneth. The Impact of American Religious Liberalism. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
BR1615 .C375i

Hall, Robert L. and Carol B. Stack, eds. Holding On the Land and the Lord: Kinship, Ritual, Land Tenure, and Social Policy in the Rural South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982.
GN2 .S9243 no. 15

Hill, Samuel S., ed. Encyclopedia of Religion in the South. Macon, Ga.: Mercer, 1984.
BR535 .E52 1984

Hill, Samuel S. One Name but Several Faces: Variety in Popular Christian Denominations in Southern History. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
BR535 .H48 1996

Hill, Samuel S., Jr. and Edgar T. Thompson. Religion and the Solid South. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1972.
BR535 .H49

Laderman, Gary, ed. Religions of Atlanta: Religious Diversity in the Centennial Olympic City. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.
BR560 .A84 R45 1996

Layne, Norman R. and Jack O. Balswick. Ascension at the Cross Roads: A Case Study of a Church Caught in the Turbulence of Rapid Social Change. Athens: Institute of Community and Area Development, University of Georgia, 1973.
BX8076 .S28 E924

Lefever, Harry Groff. Ghetto Religion: A Study of the Religious Structures and Styles of a Poor White Community in Atlanta, Georgia. Thesis, Emory University, 1971.
BR560 .A8 L40

African American Denominations

Bennett, Gerald G. The Black Church in American Culture: an Empirical Study of Black Church Members Perceptions of the Black Church in Albany, Georgia, as a Social Change Agent. Ph.D. diss., Bowling Green State University, 1982.
BR563 .N4 B4560 1982a

Billingsley, Andrew. Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
BR563 .N4 B534 1999

Bond, Gilbert I. Community, Communitas, and Cosmos: Toward a Phenomenological Interpretation and Theology of Traditional Afro-Christian Worship. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.
BX6480 .A737 B66 2002

Du Bois, W.E.B., ed. The Negro Church: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of Eighth Conference for the Study of Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, May 26th, 1903. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2003.
BR563 .N4 N43 2003

Edwards, Lonzy F. Christian Education in African-American Churches: Liberating, Nurturing, and Shepherding Believers through Purposeful Teaching. Macon, Ga.: Magnolia Pub. Co., 1999.
BR563 .N4 E39 1999

Green, Roosevelt. A Functional Analysis of the Black Church: Baptist Churches in Augusta, Georgia. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University, 1984.
BR563 .N4 G680 1984a

Hoskins, Charles Lwanga. Black Episcopalians in Savannah. Savannah, Ga.: St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, 1983.
BX5979 .H6730 1983

Jewell, Joseph Oscar. "Black Ivy": The American Missionary Association and the Black Upper Class in Atlanta, Georgia, 1875-1915. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1998.
F294 .A89 N444 1998a

Mays, Benjamin E. and Joseph William Nicholson. The Negro's Church. New York: Arno Press, 1969.
BR563 .N4 M3 1969c

McCall, Emmanuel L. The Black Christian Experience. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1972.
BR563 .N4 M23

McDonogh, Gary W. Black and Catholic in Savannah, Georgia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.
BX1418 .S38 M33 1993

Oltman, Adele. Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008.
BR563 .N4 O48 2008

Phillips, C.H. The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America. New York: Arno Press, 1972.
BX8463 .P5 1972

Shockley, Grant S. Black Pastors and Churches in United Methodism. Atlanta: Center for Research in Social Change, Emory University, 1976.
BX8382.2 .Z5 S530

Baptists

Baggott, James L. History of the Atlanta Baptist Churches to 1964. Atlanta, 1964.
BX6249 .A7 B3

Campbell, Jesse Harrison. Georgia Baptists: Historical and Biographical. Richmond: H.K. Ellyson, 1847.
BX6248 .C188

Fisher, Miles Mark. A Short History of the Baptist Denomination. Nashville: Sunday School Publishing Board, 1933.
BX6231 .F48

Gardner, Robert G. A Decade of Debate and Division: Georgia Baptists and the Formation of the Southern Baptist Convention. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1995.
BX6248 .G4 G37 1995

Gardner, Robert G. A History of the Georgia Baptist Association, 1784-1984. Atlanta: Georgia Baptist Historical Society, 1988.
BX6379.3944 .G4 H57 1988

Hester, H.I. Southern Baptists and their History. Nashville: Historical Commission, SBC, 1971.
BX6207 .A48 H47

Kelsey, George D. Social Ethics among Southern Baptists, 1917-1969. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1973.
BX6207 .A48 K44 1973

Lester, James Adams. A History of the Georgia Baptist Convention, 1822-1972. Atlanta: Executive Committee, Baptist Convention of the State of Georgia, 1972.
BX6248 .G4 L47

Thompson, James J. Tried As By Fire: Southern Baptists and the Religious Controversies of the 1920s. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1982.
BX6207 .S68 T47 1982

Catholicism

Cashin, Edward J. Thomas E. Watson and the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia. Thesis, Fordham University, 1962.
BX1770 .C3

Moore, Andrew S. The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945-1970. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
F335 .C3 M66 2007

Church of God

Hanks, Lee. The Church of God. Atlanta: Dowman & Wilkins, 191X.
BX6387 .H241

Disciples of Christ

Harrell, David Erwin. A Social History of the Disciples of Christ. Nashville: Disciples of Christ Historical Society, 1966-73.
BX7316 .H27

Moseley, J. Edward. Disciples of Christ in Georgia. St. Louis: Bethany Press, 1954.
BX7317 .G4 M8

Episcopalianism

Malone, Henry Thompson. The Episcopal Church in Georgia, 1733-1957. Atlanta: Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Atlanta, 1960.
BX5917 .G4 M2

Evangelical Churches

Harrell, David Erwin. All Things are Possible: The Healing & Charismatic Revivals in Modern America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975.
BV3733 .H37 1975

Harrell, David Edwin, Jr., ed. Varieties of Southern Evangelicalism. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1981.
BR1642 .U5 V37

Hutcheson, Richard G. Mainline Churches and the Evangelicals: A Challenging Crisis? Atlanta: John Knox, 1981.
BR1642 .U5 H87

Jorstad, Erling. Evangelicals in the White House: The Cultural Maturation of Born Again Christianity. New York: E. Mellen Press, 1981.
BR1642 .U5 J67

Judaism

Blumberg, Janice Rothschild. One Voice: Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild and the Troubled South. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1985.
BM755 .R63 B57 1985

Frey, Valerie. The Jewish Community of Savannah. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2002.
F294 .S2 S87 2001

Frey, Valerie. Voices of Savannah: Selections from the Oral History Collection of the Savannah Jewish Archives. Savannah, Ga.: Savannah Jewish Archives, 2004.
F294 .S2 F765 2004

Gettinger, Max C. Coming of Age: The Atlanta Jewish Federation, 1962-1982. Hoboken, NJ: Ktay, 1994.
F294 .A89 J535 1994

Hertzberg, Steven. Strangers Within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1978.
F294 .A89 J54

Keating, Tom. Saturday School: How One Town Kept out "the Jewish", 1902-1932. Bloomington, Ind.: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 1999.
LC212.23 .D43 K42 1999

Rubin, Saul Jacob. Third to None: The Saga of Savannah Jewry, 1733-1983. Savannah, Ga.: S.J. Rubin, 1983.
F294 .S2 R83 1983

Schmier, Louis. "Binding Ties": A Glimpse of the Jewish Experience in Georgia. Marietta, Ga.: Georgia Pub. Co., 1984.
F295 .J5 S36 1984

Koinonia Farm

Chancey, Andrew S. Race, Religion, and Reform: Koinonia's Challenge to Southern Society, 1942-1992. Ph.D. diss., University of Florida, 1998.
BV4407.67 .C43 1998a

Coble, Ann Louise. Cotton Patch for the Kingdom: Clarence Jordan's Demonstration Plot at Koinonia Farm. Scottsdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 2002.
BV4407.67 .C63 2002

K'Meyer, Tracy Elaine. Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: The Story of Koinonia Farm. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.
BV4407.67 .K54 1997

Snider, P. Joel The "Cotton Patch" Gospel: The Proclamation of Clarence Jordan. Ph.D. diss., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1984.
BX6495 .J65 S50 1984

Leo Frank Case

Frey, Robert Seitz. The Case of Leo M. Frank in the Continuum of American History: An Assessment of Christian Responses. M.A. thesis, Baltimore Hebrew College, 1986.
DS146 .U6 F74 1986a

Lutherans

Ahrendt, Theodore G. The Lutherans in Georgia: An Informal History from Spain to the Space Age. Chicago: Adams Press, 1979.
BX8042 .G4 A38

Methodists

Forsyth, W.H. Origin of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. Atlanta: W.H. Forsyth, 1979.
BX8235 .F67 1979

Pierce, Alfred Mann. A History of Methodism in Georgia, February 5, 1736 - June 24, 1955. Atlanta: North Georgia Conference Historical Society, 1956.
BX8248 .G4 P5

Pentecostal Churches

Campbell, Joseph E. The Pentecostal Holiness Church, 1898-1948: Its Background and History. Raleigh, NC: World Outlook, 1981.
BX8774 .C350 1981

Synan, Vinson. The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement in the United States. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1971.
BX8763 .S96

Wood, Dillard L. and William H. Preskitt, Jr. Baptized with Fire: A History of the Pentecostal Fire-Baptized Holiness Church. Franklin Springs, Ga.: Advocate Press, 1983.
BX8773.7 .A4 W66 1983

Presbyterians

MacLeod, James Lewis. The Presbyterian Tradition in the South. Oakwood, Ga.: Economy Printing - Educational Enterprises, 1977.
BX9220 .M340

Robinson, William Childs. Columbia Theological Seminary and the Southern Presbyterian Church; A Study in Church History, Presbyterian Policy, Missionary Enterprise, and Religious Thought. Decatur, Ga.: Dennis Lindsey Printing Co., 1931.
BV4070 .C7946 R6

Stacy, James. A History of the Presbyterian Church in Georgia. Elberton, Ga.: Press of the Star, 1912.
BX8947 .G458 1912

Yohan, Walter. The Presbyterians and Social Class in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 1967.
BX8949 .A7 Y6

Primitive Baptists

Crowley, John G. Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South: 1815 to the Present. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.
BX6384 .G4 C76 1998

Quakers

Ferguson, Janet Boyte and Janet Adams Rinard. As Way Opened: A History of Atlanta Friends, 1943-1997. Atlanta: Atlanta Friends Meeting, 1999.
BX7880 .A8 F47 1999

Religion and the Civil Rights Movement

Greene, Melissa Fay. The Temple Bombing. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1996.
F294 .A89 J536 1996

Manis, Andrew M. Southern Civil Religions in Conflict: Black and White Baptists and Civil Rights, 1947-1957. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
E185.61 .M29 1987

Marsh, Charles. The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today. New York: Basic Books, 2005.
HN31 .M238 2005

Religion and Higher Education

Corley, Florence Fleming. Higher Education for Southern Women: Four Church-Related Women's Colleges in Georgia, Agnes Scott, Shorter, Spelman, and Wesleyan, 1900-1920. Ph.D. diss., Georgia State University, 1985.
LC1758 .G4 C670 1985a

Skerpan, Alfred Lindsay. A Place for God: Religion, State Universities and American Society, 1865-1920. Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998.
LB2329.5 .S54 1998a

Taylor, Mark Allan. Religious Identity on a Slippery Slope: Furman University and Mercer University during the 1990s. Ph.D. diss., Florida State University, 2000.
LD1871 .F733 T39 2000a

Unitarian/Universalist

Montgomery, Horace. In Pursuit of the American Birthright: A Quarter-Century of Unitarian-Universalist Involvement in Athens, 1954-1979. Athens, Ga.: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens, Georgia, 1979.
BX9961 .A7 M66 1979

UGA THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Theses and dissertations are available in the Georgia Room, but require prior notice of interest in order to retrieve from the repository, and cannot be checked out.

Bisplinghoff, Judy Alves. Alcohol and the Southern Church; A Survey of Propaganda. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1971.
LXC15 1971 .B6

Boardman, Katherine Anne. Religious Drama in Twentieth Century America: The Case of Southern Presbyterianism. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1989.
LXC15 1989 .B662

Braswell, Martha Clarkson. Legal Aspects of Religion and Public Higher Education in the State of Georgia. Ed. D. diss., University of Georgia, 1986.
LXC16 1986 .B23

Chancey, Andrew S. Restructuring Southern Society: The Radical Vision of Koinonia Farm. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1990.
LXC15 1990 .C4543

Deatrick, Juanita Frances. Koinonia: A Twentieth Century Experiment in Communal Living. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1968.
LXC15 1968 .D24

Fish, John Olen. Southern Methodism in the Progressive Era: A Social History. Thesis, University of Georgia, 1969.
LXC16 1969 .F5

Hammock, Ted Lewis. Judicial Interpretation of Religious Freedom in Georgia. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1958.
LXC15 1958 .H22

Huebner, Thomas Martin. A House Divided: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Southern Baptist Convention. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1992.
LXC15 1970 .K24

Karcher, Barbara Correnti. The Catholic Church and Social Change: A Study of Meanings in a Catholic Parish in the South. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1970.
LXC15 1970 .K24

Lynskey, Susan Elizabeth. Catholic Pentecostalism; The Catholic Charismatic Revival Movement in Atlanta. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1973.
LXC15 1973 .L98

Millin, Eric Tabor. Defending the Sacred Hearth: Religion, Politics, and Racial Violence in Georgia, 1904-1906. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 2002.
Internet LXC15 2002 Millin, E.

Moyle, William Robert. The Development of Religious Activities at the University of Georgia, 1923-1953. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1954.
LXC15 1954 .M9

O'Connor, Charles S. A Rural Georgia Tragedy: Koinonia Farm in the 1950s. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 2003.
Internet LXC15 2003 O'Connor, C.

Silk, Phillip Daniel. Islam in Georgia Prisons. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 2000.
LXC15 2000 .S583

Smith, Mark Caleb. With Friends Like These: The Religious Right, the Republican Party, and the Politics of the American South. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 2001.
Internet LXC16 2001 Smith, M.

Smith, Stephani Leigh. Politics, Morality, and the Religious Right. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1994.
LXC15 1994 .S661

Sovine, Melanie Lou. A Sweet Hope in my Breast: Belief and Ritual in the Primitive Baptist Church. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1978.
LXC15 1978 .S729

Turner, William Henry. The "Tongues" Movement: A Brief History, With a Discussion Of Its Advocates, Critics, and Place in Contemporary Secular and Religious Life. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1948.
LXC15 1948 .T954

West, Donald Joseph. Race Relations in the North Georgia Conference of the Methodist Church, 1950-1971. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1974.
LXC15 1974 .W517

Wrightson, Katherine Mary. Toward a History of Catholic Higher Education in the American South: Essays on Sources and Context. Ph.D. diss., Univeristy of Georgia, 2003.
Internet LXC16 2003 Wrightson, K.

ARTICLES AND JOURNALS

Journals available in print in the Georgia Room

Georgia Historical Quarterly: F281 .G352

Bauman, Mark K. "Factionalism and Ethnic Politics in Atlanta: German Jews from the Civil War to the Progressive Era." Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (1998): 533-558.

Chancey, Andrew S. "'A Demonstration Plot for the Kingdom of God': The Establishment and Early Years of Koinonia Farm." Georgia Historical Quarterly 75 (1991): 321-353.

Cleveland, Len G. "Georgia Baptists and the 1954 Supreme Court Desegregation Decision." Georgia Historical Quarterly 59 (1975): 107-117.

Farmer, James O. "Southern Presbyterians and Southern Nationalism: A Study in Ambivalence." Georgia Historical Quarterly 75 (1991): 275-294.

Kurtz, Ernest. "The Tragedy of Southern Religion." Georgia Historical Quarterly 66 (1982): 217-294.

Moon, David T., Jr., "'A Foreign Mission at Home': The Georgia Baptist Convention and Latino Missions in Georgia, 1960-2000." Georgia Historical Quarterly 86 (2002): 253-277.

Moore, Andrew S. "Practicing What We Preach: White Catholics and the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta." Georgia Historical Quarterly 89 (2005): 334-367.

Moseley, Clement Carlton. "The Case of Leo M. Frank, 1913-1915." Georgia Historical Quarterly 51 (1967): 42-62.

Newman, Harvey K. "Piety and Segregation - White Protestant Attitudes Toward Blacks in Atlanta, 1865-1906." Georgia Historical Quarterly 63 (1979): 238-251.

Newman, Mark. "The Georgia Baptist Convention and Desegregation, 1945-1980." Georgia Historical Quarterly 83 (1999): 683-711.

O'Connor, Charles S. "The Politics of Industrialization and Interracialism in Sumter County, Georgia: Koinonia Farm in the 1950s." Georgia Historical Quarterly 89 (2005): 505-527.

Racine, Philip N. "The Ku Klux Klan, Anti-Catholicism, and Atlanta's Board of Education, 1916-1927." Georgia Historical Quarterly 57 (1973): 63-75.

Ragan, Fred D. "Obscenity or Politics? Tom Watson, Anti-Catholicism, and the Department of Justice." Georgia Historical Quarterly 70 (1986): 17-46.

Schmier, Louis. "'No Jew Can Murder': Memories of Tom Watson and the Lichtenstein Murder Case of 1901." Georgia Historical Quarterly 70 (1986): 433-455.

Willis, Alan. "A Baptist's Dilemma: Christianity, Discrimination and the Desegregation of Mercer University." Georgia Historical Quarterly 80 (1996): 595-615.

Historical Highlights BX8382.2 .A43 G4
Published by the Commission on Archives and History, South Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church. Contains articles on the history of the Methodist Church in Georgia.

Journal of Southwest Georgia History F286 .J8

Schmier, Louis. "A 'Jewish Missionary' Among the Gentiles': Charles Wessolowsky's Georgia Years." Journal of Southwest Georgia History 1 (1983): 23-37.

Viewpoints: Georgia Baptist History BX6248 .G4 V54

Carswell, W.J. "Adiel Sherwood." Viewpoints: Georgia Baptist History 2 (1969): 93-107.

Gardner, Robert G. "The Cherokee Baptist Convention." Viewpoints: Georgia Baptist History 2 (1969): 8-45.

Articles from GALILEO databases

Chaplin, Joyce E. "Slavery and the Principle of Humanity: A Modern Idea in the Early Lower South." Journal of Social History 24 (1990): 299-315.

Hook, Wade F. "Religious Regionalism: The Case of Lutherans in the South." Review of Religious Research 27 (1985): 77-85.

Jackson, Roswell F. and Rosalyn M. Patterson. "A Brief History of Selected Black Churches in Atlanta, Georgia." The Journal of Negro History 74 (1989): 31-52.

Moffson, Steven H. "Identity and Assimilation in Synagogue Architecture in Georgia, 1870-1920." Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture 9 (2003): 151-165.

Wade, John. "Judge Longstreet of Georgia." Journal of Social Forces 3 (1925): 242-248.

Whitescarver, Keith. "Creating Citizens for the Republic: Education in Georgia, 1776-1810." Journal of the Early Republic 13 (1993): 455-479.

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