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Pheme Perkins

Jesus' healing, preaching, and death are not about abstractions like “patriarchal system,” but seek to establish new patterns of personal relationship and human solidarity among all women and men, bringing liberation and healing even to those at the margins of society.

Carl G. Howie

James C. Trimble

Ernst Wendland

J. K. Elliott

H. van der Veen

Mark A. Noll

The American Revolution meant that the new nation broke with Britain politically, but religious attitudes from the colonial period, including attitudes toward Scripture, did not materially change. The Bible remained an honored part of the cultural landscape. But compared to the Revolutionary years, when Scripture was enlisted to defend the patriot cause, it mostly receded into the background. Up in the air was the question of how religion and society would relate in the new nation that had rejected the forms of European Christendom, especially state-church establishments (though light establishment religion remained in almost all of the new American states).

Michael Coogan

What languages was the Bible written in? The Bible was written in three languages. The first is Hebrew, which was the primary language of the ancient Israelites for most of the biblical period, until Aramaic gradually replaced it. Hebrew continued to be used by Jews...

AARON ROSEN

Yann Boissière

Floriane Chinsky

J. A. Ruth

Joseph Locke

By reconstructing the religious crusade to achieve prohibition in Texas, Making the Bible Belt reveals how southern religious leaders overcame long-standing anticlerical traditions and built a powerful political movement that injected religion irreversibly into public life. H.L. Mencken coined the term “Bible Belt” in the 1920s to capture the peculiar alliance of religion and public life in the American South, but the reality he described was only the closing chapter of a long historical process. Through the politics of prohibition, and in the face of bitter resistance, a complex but shared commitment to expanding the power and scope of religion transformed southern evangelicals’ inward-looking restraints into an aggressive, self-assertive, and unapologetic political activism. Early defeats forced prohibitionist clergy to recast their campaign as a broader effort that churned notions of history, race, gender, and religion into a moral crusade that elevated ambitious leaders such as the pugnacious fundamentalist J. Frank Norris and US senator Morris Sheppard, the “Father of National Prohibition,” into national figures. By exploring the controversies surrounding the religious support of prohibition in Texas, Making the Bible Belt reconstructs the purposeful, decades-long campaign to politicize southern religion, hints at the historical origins of the religious right, and explores a compelling and transformative moment in American history.

Julio Trebolle Barrera, Wilfred G.E. Watson

Julio Trebolle Barrera, Wilfred G.E. Watson