Several of the changes attributed to conscious compromise also occurred when other ecstatic religious movements became institutionalized. Early Christianity, for example, also divided families, only later to come to respect parental authority. As Heyrman herself observes, other historians will have to trace the development of the Bible Belt through the nineteenth century. When they do, they will have to begin with Heyrman's book. Southern Cross helps elucidate the rise of the evangelicals, the culture of the Old South, and the values of the Bible Belt.
Few books do as much or do it as well.
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