Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925

by Paul Harvey

Book Overview

Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped the South. Adopting a biracial and bicultural focus, Paul Harvey works to redefine southern religious history, and by extension southern culture, as the product of such interaction--the result of whites and blacks having drawn from and influenced each other even while remaining separate and distinct.

Harvey explores the parallels...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807846341
• ISBN13: 9780807846346
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"