No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta

ISBN-13: 9780190858315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str.

Alison Collis Greene

Opis

A study of the inability of the churches to deal with the crisis of the Great Depression and the shift from church-based aid to a federal welfare state.

Recenzje

With the flare of a novelist and the urgency of a reformer, [Greene] guides the reader through grassroots America's encounter with catastrophe, pausing frequently to underscore common people's burdens but also to highlight their resilience and empowerment in the fight for survival As stellar history, rigorously researched and analyzed, it is a refreshing call for scholars to reorient their concerns away from the rigidities of the current moment, which paint the South solely as conservative hegemon, to the dynamism of an earlier day when the region served as a test-case for new directions in governance, civil society, and the church."-Darren Dochuk, Journal of Social History

O autorze

Alison Collis Greene is Associate Professor of History at Mississippi State University.