Article: Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: the Other Invisible Institution.(Book Review)

By John Allen Macaulay. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 222. $32.95, ISBN 0-8173-1086-X.)

The few scholars who associate Unitarianism with the antebellum South usually dismiss its churches as New England institutions transplanted to serve travelers in national commercial centers. Against this mainstream, John Allen Macaulay argues that Unitarianism had a telling influence on the "southern orthodoxy" dominated by evangelicals. Macaulay's welcome study demonstrates how southern Unitarians' "origins, purposes, and outlook were different from and sometimes at odds with" northern Unitarianism (p. ...

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