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Description

The region that has produced our last three presidents is ground zero of America's current culture wars. Comprising Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma, it is a land of borders-where East meets West, South meets North, and Anglo America meets the cultures of Mexico and the Caribbean. Here, cultural and religious conflict has long been a way of life: Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostals and Catholics; Latinos, Blacks, and Native Americans all strive with and against each other around agendas of family, gender, race, and turf. Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads examines the distinctive character of this region and shows how it is shaping the religious politics of America today.

Table of Contents

1 Overview
2 Religion and Demography in the New Burned-Over District
3 Down, but not Out: African-American and Native American Religious Folk
4 Protestants: From Denominational Controversialists to Culture Warriors
5 Negotiating Catholicism/s: Religious Identity vs. Regional Citizenship
6 Holiness and Pentecostal Traditions

Product details

Published 03 Dec 2004
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 192
ISBN 9780759115071
Imprint AltaMira Press
Series Religion By Religion (rla
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

William Lindsey

Anthology Editor

Mark Silk

Contributor

Kathy Breazale

Contributor

Jane Harris

Contributor

William Leonard

Contributor

Andy Manis

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