The Lived Theology and Power Workgroup
Ted Ownby
Associate Professor of History and Southern Studies (University of Mississippi); Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University)
Ted Ownby is Professor of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 (1990), and American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture 1830-1998,(1999). He edited Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South (1993), and The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South (2002).
Among his articles are studies of religious historian Samuel Hill, the ways Churches of Christ and Pentecostal churches dealt with church finances in the early twentieth century South, and Confederates' ideas of the afterlife.
His current work studies the meanings of "family" in relation to changes in religion, farm life, and race relations in the twentieth century South. That project includes discussion of the idea of the congregation as a family devoted to inspiring new births, other notions of religious brotherhood and sisterhood, and the commitment of conservative religious groups to protecting a particular vision of family life.