Jamil W. Drake (Assistant Professo Assistant Professor of Religion

To Know the Soul of a People

Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk

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Produktbeschreibung

To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era. Jamil W. Drake chronicles a cadre of social scientists who studied the living conditions of black rural communities, framing the religious and cultural practices of the black communities as

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 140mm x 207mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780190082697
• ISBN-10: 0190082690
• Artikelnr.: 62160426

Autorenporträt

Jamil W. Drake is Assistant Professor of Religion at Florida State University. He teaches and researches in the area of American Religious History, with a specific concentration in African-American religion and politics. His work explores the relationship between race, science, and state governance.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface: The Legacy of Hampton: Folk, Religion, and Classifying the
Cabin People
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Moralizing the Folk: The Negro Problem, Racial Heredity,
and Religion in the Progressive Era
* Chapter 2: Assimilating the Folk: White Southern Liberals, Revival
Religion, and Regional Isolation
* Chapter 3: Medicalizing the Folk: Superstitions, Family, and Germs in
the Venereal Disease Control Program
* Chapter 4: Saving the Folk: Cultural Lag and the Southern Roots of
the Religion of Poverty
* Chapter 5: Preserving the Folk: Folk Songs and the Irony of
Romanticism
* Conclusion: The Aftermath of the Religion of Southern Folk
* Bibliography
* Index
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