Hard, Hard Religion: Interracial Faith in the Poor South

by John Hayes

Book Overview

In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South's poor--both white and black--to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the well-documented religious forms of the New South, people caught in the region's poverty crafted a distinct folk Christianity that spoke from the margins of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469635321
• ISBN13: 9781469635323
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"