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The South and North in American Religion (Paperback)
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The South and North in American Religion (Paperback)
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In this comparative history of religious life in the South and the
North, Samuel Hill considers the religions of America from a unique
angle. Tracing the religious history of both areas, this study
dramatically shows how a common religion was altered by hostilities
and then continued to develop as separate entities until recently.
Coming almost full circle, both North and South now find their
religions again to be highly similar. Two factors, Hill believes,
were major influences in the diversification of the regional
religions: the presence of Afro-Americans as an underclass of
people with a distinctive role to play in the development of
southern religious life, and the presence or absence of a large
immigrant population. Hill's overall purpose is to answer the
questions: How did there come to be a South (without which there
would not have been a North)? Why is the South the heartland of
Evangelical Protestantism and a kind of "Bible belt"? What
historical developments dispatched the two regions on distinctive
courses, religiously and otherwise? How much interaction has there
been between the religious institutions of the two regions? How
similar and divergent have the cultural patterns, styles, and
values been in "the South" and "the North"?
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