Subduing Satan
Subtitle: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 (Fred W Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 30, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780807844298
Subjects: Christianity; Local history; Sociology, Social Studies; Southern States; History - General History; Church And Society; U.S. Local History - Southern States; Social life and customs; Religion; USA; Men, White; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Social Science / Gender Studies; South; religion;  Praying South; Fighting South; gender; 1865-; Evangelicalism; History; Popular culture
First sentence: FOR an upcountry South Carolina man at the turn of the century, opossum hunting "gave you a wild feeling of being free, of standing alone against darkness and all the forces that bound and cramped."