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Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives (Religion & American Culture)
Wayne Flynt
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Description for Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives (Religion & American Culture)
Hardcover. Wayne Flynt tells the story of his life and his courageous battles against an indifferent or hostile power structure with modesty but always with honesty. In doing so he tells us the story of how Alabama institutions really are manipulated, and why we should care. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 877.
This historical memoir by the widely recognised scholar, Wayne Flynt, chronicles the inner workings of his academic career at Samford and Auburn Universities, as well as his many contributions to the general history of Alabama. Flynt has travelled the state and the South lecturing and teaching both lay and academic groups, calling on his detailed knowledge of both the history and power structures in Alabama to reveal uncomfortable truths wherever he finds them, whether in academic institutions that fall short of their stated missions, in government and industry leaders who seek and hold power by playing to the fears and ... Read more
This historical memoir by the widely recognised scholar, Wayne Flynt, chronicles the inner workings of his academic career at Samford and Auburn Universities, as well as his many contributions to the general history of Alabama. Flynt has travelled the state and the South lecturing and teaching both lay and academic groups, calling on his detailed knowledge of both the history and power structures in Alabama to reveal uncomfortable truths wherever he finds them, whether in academic institutions that fall short of their stated missions, in government and industry leaders who seek and hold power by playing to the fears and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817317546
SKU
V9780817317546
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99-15
About Wayne Flynt
Wayne Flynt is a Distinguished University Professor of History at Auburn University and author or coauthor of eleven books, including Alabama in the Twentieth Century; Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie; Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites; Alabama: The History of a Deep South State; and Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850-1950. ... Read more
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