TY  - GEN
T1  - Hard, hard religion : interracial faith in the poor South
T2  - New directions in southern studies.
A1  - Hayes, John, 1972-
LA  - English
PP  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1004378047
AB  - "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 what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the well-documented religious forms of the New South, people caught in the region's poverty crafted a distinct folk Christianity that spoke from the margins of capitalist development, giving voice to modern phenomena like alienation and disenchantment. 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. From Tom Watson and W.E.B. 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."--Back cover
CN  - BR535 .H387 2017eb
SN  - 9781469635330
SN  - 146963533X
SN  - 1469635348
SN  - 9781469635347
SN  - 9781469635316
SN  - 1469635313
SN  - 9781469635323
SN  - 1469635321
KW  - Christianity : Southern States : 20th century.
KW  - Working class : Religious life : Southern States.
KW  - Folklore : Southern States.
KW  - Christianisme : États-Unis (Sud) : 20e siècle.
KW  - Travailleurs : Vie religieuse : États-Unis (Sud)
KW  - Folklore : États-Unis (Sud)
KW  - RELIGION : Christian Church : History.
KW  - RELIGION : Christianity : History.
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Working class : Religious life
KW  - Southern States
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -