Southern Cross The Beginnings of the Bible Belt

Name: Southern Cross The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
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ISBN: 9780807847169

ISBN-10: 080784716X

ISBN-13: 9780807847169

Edition: 1998

Authors: Christine Leigh Heyrman

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Revealing a surprising paradox at the heart of America's "Bible Belt," Christine Leigh Heyrman examines how the conservative religious traditions so strongly associated with the South evolved out of an evangelical Protestantism that began with very different social and political attitudes. Although the American Revolution swept away the institutional structures of the Anglican Church in the South, the itinerant evangelical preachers who subsequently flooded the region at first encountered resistance from southern whites, who were affronted by their opposition to slaveholding and traditional ideals of masculinity, their lack of respect for generational hierarchy, their encouragement of…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/27/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Christine Leigh Heyrman is professor of history at the University of Delaware.



Acknowledgments


Prologue: Canaan's Language



Raising the Devil



The Season of Youth



Family Values



Mothers and Others in Israel



Mastery


Epilogue


Appendix


Notes


Index