Synopses & Reviews
"[A] rich, complex book. . . . An important contribution to the history of religion and race in the South."
Anglican and Episcopal History "Harvey has done it again. . . . An outstanding contribution to studies in American cultural and religious history."
Baptist History-Heritage "Harvey has produced a beautifully written, detailed, and textured work that history readers will savor."
Choice "[T]his book is a testimony to years of serious reflection on a mountain of material."
The North Carolina Historical Review "[W]ell written and accessible to anyone interested in the questions of race and religion in the South."
The Alabama Review "A wonderful book, useful for classes, well written and thoroughly researched."
Church History "[H]is interpretive theme of illusive freedom proves an effective way to make religion central to the overall southern story."
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi, general editor of The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Review
"[H]is interpretive theme of illusive freedom proves an effective way to make religion central to the overall southern story."
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi, general editor of The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Review
"[W]ell written and accessible to anyone interested in the questions of race and religion in the South."
The Alabama Review
Review
"[A] rich, complex book. . . . An important contribution to the history of religion and race in the South."
Anglican and Episcopal History
Review
"[T]his book is a testimony to years of serious reflection on a mountain of material."
The North Carolina Historical Review
Review
"A wonderful book, useful for classes, well written and thoroughly researched."
Church History
Review
"Harvey has done it again. . . . An outstanding contribution to studies in American cultural and religious history."
Baptist History-Heritage
Review
"Harvey has produced a beautifully written, detailed, and textured work that history readers will savor."
Choice
Synopsis
This sweeping portrait of religion in the South puts race and culture at the center of more than a century of spiritual and political strife. Harvey deploys cultural history in fresh and innovative ways and fills a decades-old need for a comprehensive history of religion and its relationship to the central question of race in the South for the postbellum and twentieth-century period.
Synopsis
In a sweeping analysis of religion in the post-Civil War and twentieth-century South, Freedom's Coming puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctifi
About the Author
Paul Harvey is professor of history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is author of Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925 and coeditor of Themes in Religion and American Culture.