LEADER 03318oam 22006254a 450 001 9911046697603321 005 20171006030006.0 010 $a9798890843043 010 $a9798890843050 010 $a9781469635330 010 $a146963533X 010 $a9781469635347 010 $a1469635348 035 $a(CKB)4340000000203912 035 $a(OCoLC)1004378047 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65319 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5050638 035 $a(Perlego)539119 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000203912 100 $a20170228d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHard, Hard Religion$eInterracial Faith in the Poor South /$fJohn Hayes 210 1$aChapel Hill :$cUniversity of North Carolina Press,$d[2017] 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2017 210 4$dİ[2017] 215 $a1 online resource (pages cm) 225 0 $aNew directions in southern studies 311 08$a9781469635323 311 08$a1469635321 311 08$a9781469635316 311 08$a1469635313 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Beneath the Bible Belt -- The making of the poor South -- Singing of death--and life -- Tales of conversion and call -- Sacramental expressions -- The ethics of neighborliness -- Conclusion: The unraveling of the folk Christian world. 330 8 $aIn his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South's poor--both white and black--to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the well-documented religious forms of the New South, people caught in the region's poverty crafted a distinct folk Christianity that spoke from the margins of capitalist development, giving voice to modern phenomena like alienation and disenchantment. Through haunting songs of death, mystical tales of conversion, grassroots sacramental displays, and an ethic of neighborliness, impoverished folk Christians looked for the sacred in their midst and affirmed the value of this life in this world. From Tom Watson and W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago to political commentators today, many have ruminated on how, despite material commonalities, the poor of the South have been perennially divided by racism. Through his excavation of a folk Christianity of the poor, which fused strands of African and European tradition into a new synthesis, John Hayes recovers a historically contingent moment of interracial exchange generated in hardship. 410 0$aNew directions in southern studies. 606 $aFolklore$zSouthern States 606 $aWorking class$xReligious life$zSouthern States 606 $aChristianity$zSouthern States$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFolklore 615 0$aWorking class$xReligious life 615 0$aChristianity 676 $a270.0975 676 $a277.5 700 $aHayes$b John$f1972-$01865180 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911046697603321 996 $aHard, Hard Religion$94472228 997 $aUNINA