Hard, Hard Religion: Interracial Faith in the Poor South (New Directions in Southern Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (580 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y3J1935 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 487 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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A fascinating book.--Fred Hobson, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillJohn Hayes offers a fresh view of the New South that engages history, musicology, folklore, and material culture. Offering much-needed insight into social class and poverty in the religious world of the early twentieth-century South, John Hayes's fine study of folk religion reveals the rich emotional and aesthetic lives of its subjects. It's a beautiful work, and a landmark in the field of American religious studies.--Paul Harvey, author of Christianity and Race in the American South: A History&8203;. This is an immensely rewarding piece of work fr
. John Hayes is associate professor of history at Augusta University
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.. E. 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. B. 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