Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules: A History of the Episcopal Church in Alabama

Contents

contents acknowledgments ix introduction 1 1. how anglicanism came to america 5 2. “no gentleman would choose any but the episcopalian way”: from the Beginning to the 1850s 14 3. “This worldliness that is rushing upon us like a flood”: secession and civil War 41 4. “how is the south like lazarus?”: reconstruction 57 5. The age of “dread-naughts and sky-scrapers”: The end of the nineteenth century and the Beginning of the twentieth 78 6. “great and untried experiments”: from the 1920s to the 1950s 107 7. “The carpenter of Birmingham must not be allowed to forever deny the carpenter of nazareth”: The civil rights era 133 8. “o thou who changest not . . .”: from 1968 to the present 168 conclusion: “unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required” 185 appendix a: episcopal churches in alabama in chronological order 193 appendix B: Bishops of the diocese of alabama and the diocese of the central gulf coast 204 appendix c: Membership of the episcopal church and us population at ten-year intervals from 1830 to 2010 206 viii / contents appendix d: episcopal church Membership and population of alabama from 1830 to 2010 207 appendix e: percentage of alabamians twenty-five years old and older with four or More years of postsecondary education from 1950 to 2010 209 abbreviations used in notes 211 notes 213 Bibliography 245 index 255 photographs follow page 100. ...