Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: The Other Invisible Institution

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: The Other Invisible Institution. By John Alien 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 Alien Macaulay argues that Unitarianism had a telling influence on the "southern orthodoxy" dominated by evangelicals. Macaulay's welcome study ...

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