Includes bibliographical references and index.

David Edwin Harrell, Jr. : American religious historian / Samuel S. Hill -- Elijah's never-failing cruse of oil : David Harrell and the historiography of America's Pentecostals / James R. Goff, Jr. -- David Edwin Harrell, Jr. and the history of the Stone-Campbell tradition / Richard T. Hughes -- David Edwin Harrell, Jr. and the broadening of Southern religious studies / Charles Reagan Wilson -- The Midas touch : Kenneth E. Hagin and the Prosperity Gospel / Scott Billingsley -- Rock fights, quarantines, and confessionals : B.C. Goodpasture, The gospel advocate, and keeping order in Churches of Christ / John C. Hardin -- Northern millenarian fundamentalism in the South, 1900-1950 / B. Dwain Waldrep -- Conclusion : the very civil convictions of Ed Harrell / Beth Barton Schweiger.

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Recovering the Margins of American Religious History, a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together essays from Harrell's colleagues, peers, and students that explore his impact and legacy in the field of American religious studies. Raised in an upper-class family in mid-twentieth-century Jacksonville, Florida, Harrell's membership in the Church of Christ helped establish his sense of self as a spiritual outsider. This early exclusion from the Christian mainstream laid a foundation for Harrell's pioneering studies of marginalized faiths, incl.

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