To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865-1915

by Sally G. McMillen

In the half century after the Civil War, evangelical southerners turned increasingly to Sunday schools as a means of rejuvenating their destitute region and adjusting to an ever-modernizing world. By educating children -- and later adults -- in Sunday school and exposing them to Christian teachings, biblical truths, and exemplary behavior, southerners felt certain that a better world would emerge and cast aside the death and destruction wrought by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807127493
• ISBN13: 9780807127490
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"