Southern Civil Religions : Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction ERA.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Competing Visions of the Good Society -- ONE: Progressive Voices, Traditional Voices: Reconstruction, Redemption, and the "Gospel of Material Progress" -- TWO: Black Voices, White Voices: The Race Problem as a Place Problem -- THREE: Female Voices, Male Voices: Devotion and the "Noble Daughters of the South" -- FOUR: Jewish Voices, Gentile Voices: "The Soul of America Is the Soul of the Bible" -- FIVE: Catholic Voices, Nativist Voices: True and Untrue Americans -- AFTER WORD. What If? -- APPENDIX. Population Data for the South and Wiregrass Region -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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