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No Depression in Heaven - The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta (Hardcover)
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No Depression in Heaven - The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta (Hardcover)
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In No Depression in Heaven, Alison Collis Greene demonstrates how
the Great Depression and New Deal transformed the relationship
between church and state. Grounded in Memphis and the Delta, this
book traces the collapse of voluntarism, the link between southern
religion and the New Deal, and the gradual alienation of
conservative Christianity from the state. At the start of the Great
Depression, churches and voluntary societies provided the only
significant source of aid for those in need in the South. Limited
in scope, divided by race, and designed to control the needy as
much as to support them, religious aid collapsed under the burden
of need in the early 1930s. Hungry, homeless, and out-of-work
Americans found that they had nowhere to turn at the most desolate
moment of their lives. Religious leaders joined a chorus of pleas
for federal intervention in the crisis and a permanent social
safety net. They celebrated the New Deal as a religious triumph.
Yet some complained that Franklin Roosevelt cut the churches out of
his programs and lamented their lost moral authority. Still others
found new opportunities within the New Deal. By the late 1930s, the
pattern was set for decades of religious and political realignment.
More than a study of religion and politics, No Depression in Heaven
uncovers the stories of men and women who endured the Depression
and sought in their religious worlds the spiritual resources to
endure material deprivation. Its characters are rich and poor,
black and white, mobile sharecroppers and wealthy reformers,
enamored of the federal government and appalled by it. Woven into
this story of political and social transformation are stories of
southern men and women who faced the greatest economic disaster of
the twentieth century and tried to build a better world than the
one they inhabited.
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