E-Mail Lists

H-Southern Religion
H-Southern-Religion provides an online venue for interaction between scholars in a broad range of fields, from American religious history to southern religious history, and from African American studies to gender studies.

H-SAWH (Women & Gender in the U.S. South)
This international electronic network is co-sponsored by the Southern Association for Women Historians and H-Net. The primary purpose is to act as a clearinghouse for studying the history of women and gender in the U.S. South.

H-SOUTH
H-South is an electronic discussion group dedicated to the scholarly exploration of southern history; its transformations, its re-interpretations, and its meanings.

H-Southern Industry
The purpose of H-Southern-Industry is to transfer an existing, successful academic discussion list of the Southern Industrialization Project (SIP) from a listserv operating out of Georgia Tech. SIP List began in January 1997 and currently has approximately 130 members from around the world who are interested in exchanging ideas and data about Southern industrialization.

H-Southern Lit
H-Southern-Lit promotes the study and discussion of U.S. southern literature by scholars, teachers, researchers, and other interested parties.

H-Southern Music
The primary purpose of H-Southern Music is to provide a forum for exploring and discussing the historical nature of those contributions. Musical fields under consideration range from Spirituals, Blues, Jazz, Country, Cajun, Tejano, and Gospel to Western Swing, Bluegrass, Zydeco, Rhythm and Blues, Rockabilly, Soul, and every genre and subgenre in between.

Professional Organizations

American Academy of Religion
In a world where religion plays so central a role in social, political, and economic events, as well as in the lives of communities and individuals, there is a critical need for ongoing reflection upon and understanding of religious traditions, issues, questions, and values. The American Academy of Religion's mission is to promote such reflection through excellence in scholarship and teaching in the field of religion.

American Society of Church History
The central purpose of the American Society of Church History . . . is the scholarly study of the history of Christianity and its relationship to surrounding cultures in all periods, locations and contexts.

Society for Pentecostal Studies
The purpose of the society is to stimulate, encourage, recognize, and publicize the work of Pentecostal and charismatic scholars; to study the implications of Pentecostal theology in relation to other academic disciplines, seeking a Pentecostal world-and-life view; and to support fully, to the extent appropriate for an academic society, the statement of purposes of the World Pentecostal Fellowship.

Southern Historical Association
The Southern Historical Association was organized November 2, 1934. Its objectives are the promotion of interest and research in southern history, the collection and preservation of the South's historical records, and the encouragement of state and local historical societies in the South. As a secondary purpose the Association fosters the teaching and study of all areas of history in the South.

News, Magazines, Etc.

Southern Religion in the News  Acrhives, 1999-2007

Religion in American History Blog (edited by Paul Harvey)
A Group Blog to foster discussion and share research, insights, reviews, observations, syllabi, links, new books, project information, grant opportunities, seminars, lectures, and thoughts about religion in American history, and American religious history.

Religion News Blog
Religion News Blog is a non-profit service providing academics, religion professionals and other researchers with religion & cult news.

Religion in the News
Religion is anything but an easy subject to cover. This is not simply because, in America, it comes in so many brands. It also plays many different roles-from the most private and personal to the most public and ceremonial. It is also, these days, a moving target, changing its institutional forms, adding new dimensions to its operations, subject to shifting understandings of the First Amendment. For these reasons, we offer--three times a year--this look at religion in the news.

Books and Culture
A wide-ranging review, covering the arts, religion, the humanities, music, and film.

The Christian Century
The Christian Century magazine believes that the Christian faith calls Christians to a profound engagement with the world--an engagement of both head and heart. We think Christians can and must articulate their faith in a way that is meaningful and intellectually compelling to those around them.

The Revealer
A daily review of religion and the press.

Sojourners
The publications mission is “to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world.”

Beliefnet
Beliefnet has a wide variety of resources--articles, quizzes, devotionals, sacred text searches, message boards, prayer circles, photo galleries and much more. . .

National Public Radio: Religion

The New York Times : Religion and Belief

Religion News
Collects headlines from newspapers and magazines across the U.S.  Browsers can sort by category: bioethics, death penalty, gay marriage, religion and politics, religion and public schools…

Religion News Service
“For over 70 years, Religion News Service has been an authoritative source of news about religion, ethics, spirituality and moral issues. Based in Washington, D.C., RNS has a network of correspondents around the world, providing news and information on all faiths and religious movements to the nation's leading newspapers, news magazines, broadcast organizations and religious publications.”

Washington Post : Religion

Speaking of Faith
Public radio's conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Each week, Krista Tippett probes the myriad ways in which religious impulses inform every aspect of life and culture, nationally and globally.  Hear full broadcasts and read additional content.

Religion and Ethics Newsweekly
Hosted by veteran journalist Bob Abernethy, this one-of-a-kind television newsmagazine provides insightful coverage and analysis of the news, people, events and trends behind the headlines in the rich world of religion and ethics.  Read transcripts and view programs at this companion site.

Religious Broadcasting Site at the University of Virginia
A gateway to Internet resources about religious broadcasting. We will begin with the simple goal of creating easy access links to the resources that broadcasters themselves have created. When that task is accomplished, we will attempt to identify other Internet commentary about religious broadcasting….

Music

“Now What a Time”: Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (Library of Congress)
Consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia. The documentation was created by John Wesley Work III in 1941 and by Lewis Jones and Willis Laurence James in March, June, and July 1943.

The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (Library of Congress)
A multiformat ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States.

Primary Source Materials & Online Sources

The African American Odyssey (Library of Congress)
Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings, this is the largest black history exhibit ever held at the Library, and the first exhibition of any kind to feature presentations in all three of the Library's buildings.

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1940 (Library of Congress)
These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940.

Early Virginia Religious Petitions (Library of Congress)
Early Virginia Religious Petitions presents images of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802 from more than eighty counties and cities.

First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 (Library of Congress)
This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documents the culture of the nineteenth-century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners.

Making of America
MoA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Incorporating "Our Southern Zion": The Southern Baptist Convention, 1880-1920
This site follows the development of the SBC during the "New South" period by focusing on the organization of three specific agencies under its control: the Home Mission Board (1882), the Women's Missionary Union (1888), and the Sunday School Board (1891).

French and Spanish Missions in North America
This publication is an interactive book. That means that it provides an introductory overview of the subject together with a rich data files of information that users can query in various ways, and especially through utilization of Time Map™ . The following discussion of ways in which persons might engage the site is for purposes of orientation and suggests only a few possibilities. Researchers who familiarize themselves with the site will discover many other ways in which to query the data.