The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945--1970 Contributor(s): Moore, Andrew S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807132128 ISBN-13: 9780807132128 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: This new study argues persuasively that until the 1960s religion rivaled race as a boundary separating people in the South's Bible Belt. However, the civil rights movement contributed to social and political realignments along racial lines, causing a decline in anti-Catholicism. In a region marked by religious prejudice against them, Catholics refused to shrink from public view. Moore describes the separate subculture they created after World War II and explains how it sustained their religious identity as they marked out public sacred space from which they could engage their Protestant critics. |
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BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Religion | Christianity - History - History | United States - 20th Century |
Dewey: 975.008 |
LCCN: 2006015760 |
Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.46" W x 8.64" (0.88 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian - Chronological Period - 1950's - Chronological Period - 1960's - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Georgia - Geographic Orientation - Alabama - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: In The South's Tolerable Alien, Andrew S. Moore probes the role of Catholics in the post--World War II South and argues persuasively that, until the 1960s, religion rivaled race as a boundary separating residents of the Bible Belt. Delving deep into underutilized diocesan archives, he explores the ways in which southern Catholics worked to be both good Catholics and good southerners in a region largely defined by Protestant denominations, and explains how the burgeoning civil rights movement ultimately breached these religious barriers. |