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The South's Tolerable Alien - Moore, Andrew S
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This new study argues persuasively that until the 1960s religion rivaled race as a boundary separating people in the South's Bible Belt. However, the civil rights movement contributed to social and political realignments along racial lines, causing a decline in anti-Catholicism. In a region marked by religious prejudice against them, Catholics refused to shrink from public view. Moore describes the separate subculture they created after World War II and explains how it sustained their religious identity as they marked out public sacred space from which they could engage their Protestant critics.…mehr

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This new study argues persuasively that until the 1960s religion rivaled race as a boundary separating people in the South's Bible Belt. However, the civil rights movement contributed to social and political realignments along racial lines, causing a decline in anti-Catholicism. In a region marked by religious prejudice against them, Catholics refused to shrink from public view. Moore describes the separate subculture they created after World War II and explains how it sustained their religious identity as they marked out public sacred space from which they could engage their Protestant critics.
Autorenporträt
Andrew S. Moore is an assistant professor of history at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.