Rethinking Zion
Subtitle: how the print media placed fundamentalism in the South
By: Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781572334939
Subjects: Fundamentalism -- Southern States -- Press coverage -- United States; Fundamentalism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Description: This book documents the process by which the South received it's fundamentalist label and chronicles the forces at work in creating the image of the South as the Bible Belt. This thought-provoking book, adds much to the study of existing literature on the rise of fundamentalism and is an important resource for scholars and students of southern history, religious history, and the history of journalism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-170) and index
Table of contents: title: "We don't want religion; we want blood" : the violent South; title: "The school backward, the people illiberal" : the uneducated South; title: The long meter doxology in the state house : the teetotaling South; title: "Salesmen of hate" : fundamentalism becomes southern; title: "Gundamentalist" : J. Frank Norris and the South's fate