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Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War
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The Journal of Southern History
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August 1, 2007
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Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War. Edited by Carl L. Kell. Introduction by Samuel S. Hill. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xliv, 194. $25.95, ISBN 1-57233-448-7.)
In the preface to Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War, Carl L. Kell writes, "[I]n the twenty-first century, the exiled have a new voice: a rhetoric of freedom and a spirit of hopefulness for the future" (p. xxxviii). With the editor's premise in mind, the reader is invited into a brief, narrative anthology composed entirely of disaffected Southern Baptist voices. What follows is a surprisingly poignant collection of stories that raise questions of identity in ...