Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion
by
Joseph L. Locke
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Making the Bible Belt upends notions of a longstanding, stable marriage between political religion and the American South. H.L. Mencken coined the term "the Bible Belt" in the 1920s to capture the peculiar alliance of religion and public life in the South, but the reality he described was...