Southern Civil Religions: Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era

CONTENTS

contents acknowledgments ix introduction. CompetingVisionsoftheGoodSociety 1 one Progressive Voices, Traditional Voices: Reconstruction, Redemption, and the “Gospel of Material Progress” 15 two Black Voices, White Voices: The Race Problem as a Place Problem 45 three Female Voices, Male Voices: Devotion and the “Noble Daughters of the South” 78 four Jewish Voices, Gentile Voices: “The Soul of America Is the Soul of the Bible” 106 five Catholic Voices, Nativist Voices: True and Untrue Americans 134 afterword. What If? 163 appendix. Population Data for the South and Wiregrass Region 171 notes 173 bibliography 207 index 225 This page intentionally left blank ...