Politics And Religion in the White South (Religion in the South)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: August 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780813123639
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Christianity; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Religion, Politics & State; History - U.S.; History; History: World; USA; Social History; Political History; United States - State & Local - South; Christianity and politics; Church and state; Southern States
First sentence: Emboldened by a distinctive religious fervor, Southern Baptists leaders called down divine blessings upon racial segregation as the nineteenth century merged with the twentieth.