Making the Bible Belt
Subtitle: Texas prohibitionists and the politicization of southern religion
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780190216283
Copyright date: 2017
Description: "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." -- Provided by the publisher.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Heretics, Infidels, and Iconoclasts : The Freewheeling Religious World of the Late Nineteenth Century; title: Subduing the Saintly : The Anticlerical Tradition; title: Of Tremor and Transition : Crisis and the Origins of Southern Clericalism; title: The Road to the Bible Belt : Mobilizing the Godly; title: Triumph in the Churches : The Clerical Insurgency; title: Marking Morality : Gender, Race, and Righteousness; title: Unto the Breach : The Politics of Clericalism; title: Anything That Ought to Be Done : The Triumph of Clericalism; title: Epilogue