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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
