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Summary
This powerfully illustrated book seeks to explain the staying power of these rural churches and to introduce the people who keep them alive while the surrounding communities have given way to the larger towns and cities nearby. Beyond the power of religion itself, the authors have uncovered the roles of geography, race, ethnicity, and family in giving life to these small churches.
Authors Lois Myers and Rebecca Sharpless enhance our understanding of the interplay of religion and culture, the qualities of late twentieth-century rural life, and the continuing draw of the open country. Photojournalist Clark Baker portrays open-country churches and their members in vivid black and white photographs.
Churches featured in the volume include the oldest Norwegian Lutheran church in Texas, four African American Baptist churches organized soon after emancipation, white Southern Baptist churches, Protestant and Catholic churches founded by European and Mexican immigrants, and one union church that for most of the past century accommodated both Methodists and Baptists. Based on memories of longtime members, church minutes and histories, baptism records, and family histories the authors collapse decades of tradition into the enchanting and informative pages of this book.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Foreword | |
Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
Rural Life and Religion in Central Texas | p. 3 |
Belonging to the Family | p. 37 |
Feeling at Home | p. 60 |
Serving the Lord | p. 92 |
Facing Change | p. 130 |
Photographer's Note | p. 163 |
Notes | p. 165 |
Bibliography | p. 183 |
Index | p. 191 |
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