Title: Southern civil religions in conflict
First published: 1987
Description: "In this book, Andrew Manis shows how two conflicting civil religions emerged in the South during the civil rights movement, each with its own understanding of America's calling and destiny as a nation. Using black and white Baptists in the South as case studies, Manis interprets the civil rights movement as a civil religious conflict between Southerners with opposing understandings of America.

Originally published in 1987, this new, expanded edition further argues that the civil rights movement and its opposition, with their conflicting images and hopes for America, foreshadowed the ongoing "culture wars" of recent days."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Race relations, Civil rights, Civil religion, Baptists, African Americans, Civil rights movements, Political activity, Bürgerrecht, Rassenbeziehung, Ethnische Beziehung, Südstaaten, Baptisten, Geschichte (1947-1957), Schwarze, African americans, civil rights, Civil rights movements, united states, Southern states, race relations
Places: Southern States
Time periods: 20th century