Hard, Hard Religion (eBook)

Interracial Faith in the Poor South

John Hayes (Autor)

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2017
250 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3533-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South's poor--both white and black--to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the well-documented religious forms of the New South, people caught in the region's poverty crafted a distinct folk Christianity that spoke from the margins of capitalist development, giving voice to modern phenomena like alienation and disenchantment. Through haunting songs of death, mystical tales of conversion, grassroots sacramental displays, and an ethic of neighborliness, impoverished folk Christians looked for the sacred in their midst and affirmed the value of this life in this world. From Tom Watson and W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago to political commentators today, many have ruminated on how, despite material commonalities, the poor of the South have been perennially divided by racism. Through his excavation of a folk Christianity of the poor, which fused strands of African and European tradition into a new synthesis, John Hayes recovers a historically contingent moment of interracial exchange generated in hardship.

Autor

John Hayes is associate professor of history at Augusta University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.9.2017
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Southern Studies
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Southern Studies
• Zusatzinfo: 22 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: “Conversation with Death” • bible belt • Blind Willie Johnson • capitalism and Christianity • Christmas lore • class in American religion • “Conversation with Death” • conversion narratives • Devil lore • ethic of neighborliness • Flannery O’Connor’s South • Flannery O’Connor’s South • Folk Christianity • folk sermons • grassroots sacramentalism • grave decorations • interracial exchange in the South • liminality and enchantment • Lloyd Chandler • medieval/modernist life affirmation • New South • Oral culture • post-Populist communal ideal • religious life of the poor • Southern States—middle class • Southern States—poor • Southern States—middle class • Southern States—poor • Vera Hall
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3533-X / 146963533X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3533-0 / 9781469635330