Donald G. Mathews

At the Altar of Lynching

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers a new interpretation of the lynching of Sam Hose through the lens of the religious culture in the evangelical American South.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9781107182974
• ISBN-10: 1107182972
• Artikelnr.: 48208585

Autorenporträt

Donald G. Mathews has taught at Duke and Princeton Universities, as well as at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has studied and written about religion and the South for over fifty years, publishing three books and over thirty articles. He is the author of Religion in the Old South (1979) and co-author of Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA (1993).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Before the burning: Southern mastery
2. Sex, danger, and religion: facing a 'savage fury'
3. Kindling the fire
4. Burning Sam Hose
5. Ashes: rape and history
6. Ashes: the blind and sighted
7. At the altar: crucifixion.