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By J. Barry Vaughn

ISBN-10: 0817318119

ISBN-13: 9780817318116

Bishops, Bourbons, and large Mules tells the tale of the way the Episcopal Church received effect over Alabama’s cultural, political, and financial arenas regardless of being a denominational minority within the state.

The consensus of southern historians is that, because the moment nice Awakening, evangelicalism has ruled the South. this is often definitely actual whilst one considers the level to which southern tradition is ruled through evangelical rhetoric and concepts. in spite of the fact that, in Alabama one

non-evangelical workforce has performed an important function in shaping the state’s background. J. Barry Vaughn explains that, even though the Episcopal Church has regularly been a small fraction (around 1 percentage) of Alabama’s inhabitants, an inordinately excessive percentage, as regards to 10 percentage, of Alabama’s major leaders have belonged to this denomination. a lot of those leaders got here to the Episcopal Church from different denominations simply because they have been interested in the church’s vast measure of doctrinal range and laissez-faire perspective towards human frailty.

Vaughn argues that the church was once in a position to allure a number of the state’s governors, congressmen, and legislators by means of positioning itself because the church of conservative political elites within the state--the planters ahead of the Civil conflict, the “Bourbons” after the Civil conflict, and the “Big Mules” in the course of industrialization. He starts this narrative by way of explaining how Anglicanism got here to Alabama after which highlights how Episcopal bishops and congregation participants alike took lively roles in key historical routine together with the Civil struggle, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights move. Bishops, Bourbons, and massive Mules closes with Vaughn’s personal predictions in regards to the destiny of the Episcopal Church in twenty-first-century Alabama.

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