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Article: The Life of Selina Campbell: A Fellow Soldier in the Cause of Restoration.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- May 1, 2003
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By Loretta M. Long. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. [x], 235. $34.95, ISBN 0-8173-1059-2.)
Loretta M. Long, an assistant professor of history at Abilene Christian University, has published this groundbreaking book on Selina Campbell (1802-1897), the second wife of Restorationist movement leader Alexander Campbell (1788-1866). Both Alexander and Selina exercised leading roles in the nineteenth-century movement that resulted in the Disciples of Christ and its later southern branch, the Churches of Christ. While the book is something of a biography (the first on Selina), it is obvious from the ...