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Southern Cross The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (review)

Southern Cross The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (review) Gaines M. Foster Southern Cultures, Volume 4, Number 3, 1998, pp. 84-86 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1998.0077 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424204/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 16:56 GMT from JHU Libraries reviews Our regular review section features some of the best new books, films, and sound recordings in southern studies. From time to time, you'll also find reviews of important new museum exhibitions and public history sites, and retrospectives on classic works that continue to shape our understanding of the region and its people. Our aim is to explore the rich diversity of southern life and the methods and approaches of those who study it. Southern Cross The Beginnings of the Bible Belt By Christine Leigh Heyrman Alfred A. Knopf, 1 997 352 pp. Cloth, $27.50 Reviewed by Gaines M. Foster, associate professor of history at Ixmisiana State University and author of Ghosts ofthe Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence ofthe New South. The Bible Belt. Few images of the South have a more tenacious grip on the pop- ular imagination. Many who use the term as shorthand for evangelicalism's cen- trality to southern culture assume it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Southern Cross The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (review)

Foster, Gaines M.
Southern Cultures , Volume 4 (3) – Jan 4, 2012
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Gaines M. Foster Southern Cultures, Volume 4, Number 3, 1998, pp. 84-86 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1998.0077 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424204/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 16:56 GMT from JHU Libraries reviews Our regular review section features some of the best new books, films, and sound recordings in southern studies. From time to time, you'll also find reviews of important new museum exhibitions and public history sites, and retrospectives on classic works that continue to shape our understanding of the region and its people. Our aim is to explore the rich diversity of southern life and the methods and approaches of those who study it. Southern Cross The Beginnings of the Bible Belt By Christine Leigh Heyrman Alfred A. Knopf, 1 997 352 pp. Cloth, $27.50 Reviewed by Gaines M. Foster, associate professor of history at Ixmisiana State University and author of Ghosts ofthe Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence ofthe New South. The Bible Belt. Few images of the South have a more tenacious grip on the pop- ular imagination. Many who use the term as shorthand for evangelicalism's cen- trality to southern culture assume it

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