Hard, Hard Religion
Interracial Faith in the Poor South
John Hayes
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/2017
Pages: 250
Subject: Religion, Social Science, History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9780000000000
eBook ISBN: 9781469635347
DESCRIPTION
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.