Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Ce... - 9780817360221

Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth CenturyAuthor(s): Wayne Flynt, Charles A. Israel, John Giggie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817360221, 978-0817360221\nSynopsis\nSouthern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century is a collection of fifteen essays by award-winning scholar Wayne Flynt that explores and reveals the often-forgotten religious heterogeneity of the American South.\n Throughout its dramatic history, the American South has wrestled with issues such as poverty, social change, labor reform, civil rights, and party politics, and Flynts writing reaffirms religion as the lens through which southerners understand and attempt to answer these contentious questions. In Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century, however, Flynt gently but persuasively dispels the mythcomforting to some and dismaying to othersof religio.