Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era

by Paul Harvey

Book Overview

In a sweeping analysis of religion in the post-Civil War and twentieth-century South, Freedom's Coming puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them. The seeds of subversion, Paul Harvey argues, were embedded in the passionate individualism, exuberant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807858145
• ISBN13: 9780807858141
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"