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Article: Avenues of Faith: Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900-1929.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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By Samuel C. Shepherd Jr. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xiv], 414. $44.95, ISBN 0-8173-1076-2.)
Samuel C. Shepherd Jr. offers a splendid study of urban religious culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. Writing in the midst of an escalating interest in southern religion, Shepherd takes as his starting point the need to map the religious culture of the South's urban centers. He argues that "southern cities presented an assortment of images" (p. 8), with Richmond differing from Birmingham, Nashville, and New Orleans. Shepherd limits his study to Richmond's mainline white Protestant ...