| Description |
1 online resource (283 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Making the Bible Belt; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Heretics, Infidels, and Iconoclasts: The Freewheeling Religious World of the Late Nineteenth Century; 2. Subduing the Saintly: The Anticlerical Tradition; 3. Of Tremor and Transition: Crisis and the Origins of Southern Clericalism; 4. The Road to the Bible Belt: Mobilizing the Godly; 5. Triumph in the Churches: The Clerical Insurgency; 6. Marking Morality: Gender, Race, and Righteousness; 7. Unto the Breach: The Politics of Clericalism |
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8. Anything That Ought to Be Done: The Triumph of ClericalismEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
By reconstructing the religious crusade to achieve prohibition in Texas, Making the Bible Belt reveals how southern religious leaders overcame longstanding anticlerical traditions, built a formidable social movement, and, in the course of outlawing liquor, injected religion irreversibly into public life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 14, 2017) |
| Subject |
Prohibition -- Texas -- History
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Religion and politics -- Texas -- History
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Religion and politics -- Southern States -- History
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Prohibition
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Religion
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Religion and politics
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| SUBJECT |
Texas -- Religion
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| Subject |
Southern States
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Texas
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016055369 |
| ISBN |
9780190216290 |
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0190216298 |
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9780190216313 |
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019021631X |
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