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John Hayes
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The University of North Carolina Press
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October 2017
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John Hayes
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The University of North Carolina Press
Published
October 2017
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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.
Author
John Hayes
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Published
October 2017
Weight
364g
Page Count
256
Dimensions
15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm
ISBN
9781469635323
ISBN-10
1469635321
Eden Code
4520385
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Author/Creator: John Hayes
ISBN: 9781469635323
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Release Date: October 2017
Weight: 364g
Dimensions: 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm
Eden Code: 4520385