Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads: Showdown States (Religion by Region) [Paperback]

William Lindsey (Editor), Mark Silk (Editor), Kathy Breazale (Contributor), Jane Harris (Contributor), William Leonard (Contributor), Cheryl Kirk-Duggan (Contributor), Andy Manis (Contributor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0759106339 | ISBN-13: 978-0759106338 | Publication Date: November 26, 2004

The region that has produced our last three presidents is ground zero of America's current culture wars. Comprising Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma, it is a land of borders--where East meets West, South meets North, and Anglo America meets the cultures of Mexico and the Caribbean. Here, cultural and religious conflict has long been a way of life: Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostals and Catholics; Latinos, Blacks, and Native Americans all strive with and against each other around agendas of family, gender, race, and turf. Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads examines the distinctive character of this region and shows how it is shaping the religious politics of America today.

Editorial Reviews

Review

One of the most delightful attributes of the book is that the authors have read each other's chapters, a rare quality in a volume of collected essays that gives this one more philosophical continuity and internal coherence than one often finds in such books. The series is intended to help readers move past the glib, poorly informed generalities of much public conversation about religion and its connections to politics and public society....It certainly achieves its laudable aims. (Journal Of Church And State )

About the Author

William Lindsey is dean of instruction at Philander Smith College. Mark Silk is associate professor of religion in public life and founding director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Altamira Press (November 26, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0759106339
• ISBN-13: 978-0759106338
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,526,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)