Monte Harrell Hampton is visiting instructor of US history at North Carolina State University and a pastor in the Raleigh, North Carolina area.
"Hampton reveals the links between theology, laboratory sciences,
theories of evolution, and racial ideology in the culture wars that
flared in the nineteenth-century South. Storm of Words is
impressive in all the important ways; it is a prodigious work of
research and analysis that grapples with many of the major
questions that beset nineteenth-century religion and science, and
it is written in sparkling prose."
--W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past: A Clash of
Race and Memory "Monte Hampton's sophisticated analysis of the
religious history of Southern Christians wending their way through
the challenges of the nineteenth century is a model of intellectual
history. The ways in which the author shows how James Woodrow and
his fellow ministers managed faith, orthodoxy, and science suggest
how the history of ideas in the United States should always include
the discourse of Southern intellectuals."
--Donald Mathews, author of Religion in the Old South and Sex,
Gender and the Politics of ERA
"Thoroughly researched, persuasively presented, and stylistically
engaging, this study makes a significant contribution to our
understanding of the interface between science and religion in the
American South from the 1850s into the 1880s."
--Lester D. Stephens, author of Science, Race, and Religion in the
American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of
Naturalists, 1815-1895
"Delving deeping into significant manuscript collections and, in
particular, the lively Presbyterian publications of the era,
Hampton breaks new ground in this brilliant study."
--The South Carolina Historical Magazine "As Hampton's fine book
demonstrates, the issues at the heart of the Woodrow
case--scriptural authority and interpretation, the interaction of
cultural context and universal claims, and the proper relationship
of science and religion--continue to resonate today, and this,
Storm of Words makes an excellent read not just for historians, but
for anyone engaged in our own contemporary culture wars."
--Reports of the National Center for Science Education " I am
confident that Monte Hampton's Storm of Words will quickly
establish itself as the starting place for information about
religion in the nineteenth-century South. It is a first-rate,
thoroughly researched, gracefully written, and cogently argued
study of southern, especially Presbyterian, responses to scientific
developments in the nineteenth century, from antebellum geology and
anthropology to the late-century controversies over evolution.
Hampton not only provides a superb synthesis of what we already
know but adds substantially to the story."
-- Ronald L. Numbers, author of The Creationists: From Scientific
Creationism to Intelligent Design
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