Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197532911ISBN-10:197532918UPC:9780197532911Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:United States, Christianity, Religion, Politics & StateBook Topic:State & Local, HistorySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCH5KPWF4Y
Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion
Making the Bible Belt upends notions of a longstanding, stable marriage between political religion and the American South. H.L. Mencken coined the term "the Bible Belt" in the 1920s to capture the peculiar alliance of religion and public life in the South, but the reality he described was only the closing chapter of a long historical process. Into the twentieth century, a robust anticlerical...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197532911ISBN-10:197532918UPC:9780197532911Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:United States, Christianity, Religion, Politics & StateBook Topic:State & Local, HistorySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCH5KPWF4Y
Joseph L. Locke is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria.
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