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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Fones-Wolf, Elisabeth Ann (1954-....)
Fones-Wolf, Ken
Titre(s) : Struggle for the soul of the postwar South [Texte imprimé] : white evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie / Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf
Publication : Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. ( xiv-264 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Working class in American history
Lien à la collection : The working class in American history
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"This study provides new answers to one of the most perplexing questions facing historians
of labor and of the South: why were workers so resistant to the efforts of unions
and liberals to reform the region? Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf add evangelical Protestantism
to the narrative of how workers responded to organized labor's most ambitious effort
to transform the U.S. South in the decades after World War II: the CIO's Operation
Dixie (1946-53). The authors investigate how the Depression and World War II, and
the economic restructuring that accompanied them, affected the religious culture of
the South and the outlook of evangelical Protestants. Drawing on deep research in
denominational archives and newspapers and in records of national church organizations,
the CIO, and business organizations, they examine the religious backgrounds and outlooks
of the individuals the CIO sent to the South and discuss how these messengers -- who
represented denominational backgrounds quite different from those of their would-be
constituents -- looked to southern ministers and congregants. They also use oral histories
to consider how workers' religious beliefs guided their choices to join or reject
the CIO's appeal. By making the sacred a major element in the story of struggle for
southern economic justice and positioning class as a central aspect of southern religion,
the Fones-Wolfs provide new and nuanced understandings of how southerners wrestled
with the options available to them in this crucial period of change and possibility"
Sujet(s) : Évangélisme -- États-Unis (sud) -- Histoire
Mouvement ouvrier -- Religion -- États-Unis (sud) -- Histoire
Conservatisme chrétien -- États-Unis (sud) -- Histoire
Congress of industrial organizations (Etats-Unis)
Indice(s) Dewey :
331.880 973 (23e éd.) = Syndicats - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780252039034
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47265462w
Notice n° :
FRBNF47265462
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The Wages of the "Problem South" ; Unrest in Zion : Southern Churches in Depression
and War ; "If You Read Your Bible" : The Faith of Southern White Workers ; Constructing
a Region of Christian Free Enterprise ; The Bible Speaks to Labor ; Ministering
in Communities of Struggle ; Red Scares and Black Scares
