| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War. By John Patrick Daly. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. x, 207 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8131-2241-4.)

Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery. By Stephen R. Haynes. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiv, 322 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-514279-9.)

In 1978 E. Brooks Holifield's classic study of southern theology was widely hailed as path-breaking, but no great outpouring of scholarship on southern theology followed. The study of southern religion has flowered in the years since, especially in the fields of social and cultural history, but only a few scholars have followed Holifield's lead into the religious mind of the Old South. Recently, Eugene Genovese has taken up the topic of southern intellectual history and theology with his usual verve, brilliance, and contentiousness. In many respects, these two books follow Genovese's lead. Though southern religion is often characterized as a religion of the heart, not of the head, Holifield challenged that view, and, like him, John Patrick Daly and Stephen R. Haynes take southern clergymen seriously as theologians. Were southern clergymen enlightened, progressive thinkers deeply influenced by northern and European thought, or were they proponents of a religion of the heart over a religion of the head, too deeply immersed in the backward institution of slavery to share in the intellectual currents of their age?

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