Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion by Joseph L. Locke

Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion

Joseph L. Locke

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nonfiction history politics religion informative reflective medium-paced
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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 t...

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