Joseph L Locke

Making the Bible Belt

Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

By reconstructing the religious crusade to achieve prohibition in Texas, Making the Bible Belt reveals how southern religious leaders overcame longstanding anticlerical traditions, built a formidable social movement, and, in the course of outlawing liquor, injected religion irreversibly into public life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780190216283
• ISBN-10: 019021628X
• Artikelnr.: 47863018

Autorenporträt

Joseph Locke is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter One: Heretics, Infidels, and Iconoclasts: The Freewheeling
Religious World of the Late-Nineteenth Century
* Chapter Two: Subduing the Saintly: The Anticlerical Tradition
* Chapter Three: Of Tremor and Transition: Crisis and the Origins of
Southern Clericalism
* Chapter Four: The Road to the Bible Belt: Mobilizing the Godly
* Chapter Five: Triumph in the Churches: The Clerical Insurgency
* Chapter Six: Marking Morality: Gender, Race, and Righteousness
* Chapter Seven: Unto the Breach: The Politics of Clericalism
* Chapter Eight: Anything That Ought to be Done: The Triumph of
Clericalism
* Epilogue
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index