Making the Bible Belt - Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion

By reconstructing the religious crusade to achieve prohibition in Texas, Making the Bible Belt reveals how southern religious leaders overcame longstanding anticlerical traditions, built a formidable social movement, and, in the course of outlawing liquor, injected religion irreversibly into public life.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter One: Heretics, Infidels, and Iconoclasts: The Freewheeling Religious World of the Late-Nineteenth Century


• Chapter Two: Subduing the Saintly: The Anticlerical Tradition


• Chapter Three: Of Tremor and Transition: Crisis and the Origins of Southern Clericalism


• Chapter Four: The Road to the Bible Belt: Mobilizing the Godly


• Chapter Five: Triumph in the Churches: The Clerical Insurgency


• Chapter Six: Marking Morality: Gender, Race, and Righteousness


• Chapter Seven: Unto the Breach: The Politics of Clericalism


• Chapter Eight: Anything That Ought to be Done: The Triumph of Clericalism


• Epilogue


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Joseph L. Locke is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria.

Summary

By reconstructing the religious crusade to achieve prohibition in Texas, Making the Bible Belt reveals how southern religious leaders overcame longstanding anticlerical traditions, built a formidable social movement, and, in the course of outlawing liquor, injected religion irreversibly into public life.

Additional text

Joseph L. Locke's eye-opening monograph shatters erroneous and too-long-held assumptions regarding the role of religion in Texas political history....A gifted storyteller, Locke introduces us to a wide range of colorful figures and reminds readers of the little-known Texas connections of major Prohibitionist leaders....This nuanced volume should be read closely not just by historians of American religion, but political scientists and sociologists as well.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph L. Locke, Joseph L. (Assistant Professor of History Locke
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2020
• EAN: 9780197532911
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753291-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Christian life & practice, History of Religion, Local History, History of the Americas, Christian life and practice, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, RELIGION / Christian Living / Family & Relationships, Central Southern States, US South, Christian aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships