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Religion and Public Life in the South
. Ed(S): Wilson, Charles Reagan; Silk, Mark
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Description for Religion and Public Life in the South
Paperback. An overview of public religion in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. Editor(s): Wilson, Charles Reagan; Silk, Mark. Series: Religion by Region. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 168 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
In July 2002 chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court had a two-ton monument of the Ten Commandments placed into the rotunda of the Montgomery state judicial building. But this action is only a recent case in the long history of religiously inspired public movements in the American South. From the Civil War to the Scopes Trial to the Moral Majority, white Southern evangelicals have taken ideas they see as drawn from the Christian Scriptures and tried to make them into public law. But blacks, women, subregions, and other religious groups too vie for power within and outside this Southern ... Read more
In July 2002 chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court had a two-ton monument of the Ten Commandments placed into the rotunda of the Montgomery state judicial building. But this action is only a recent case in the long history of religiously inspired public movements in the American South. From the Civil War to the Scopes Trial to the Moral Majority, white Southern evangelicals have taken ideas they see as drawn from the Christian Scriptures and tried to make them into public law. But blacks, women, subregions, and other religious groups too vie for power within and outside this Southern ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Religion by Region
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
California, United States
ISBN
9780759106352
SKU
V9780759106352
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About . Ed(S): Wilson, Charles Reagan; Silk, Mark
Charles Reagan Wilson is professor of history and Southern Studies and director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause 1865-1920, and Judgement and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis. He is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of ... Read more
Reviews for Religion and Public Life in the South
Interesting…Summing up: Recommended. Academic programs, particularly in Protestant studies; upper-level undergraduates and above.
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