Southern civil religions : imagining the good society in the post-Reconstruction Era
Title:
Southern civil religions : imagining the good society in the post-Reconstruction Era
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Publication Information:
Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, c2011.
Physical Description:
x, 234 pages ; 24 cm.
Series:
The new southern studies
New southern studies.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-223) and index.
Contents:
Progressive voices, traditional voices: Reconstruction, redemption, and the "gospel of material progress" -- Black voices, white voices: the race problem as a place problem -- Female voices, male voices: devotion and the "noble daughters of the South" -- Jewish voices, gentile voices: "the soul of America is the soul of the Bible" -- Catholic voices, nativist voices: true and untrue Americans.
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