| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Righteous Indignation: Religion and the Populist Revolution. By Joe Creech. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxx, 232 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03074-1. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-00252-07315-1.)
This provocative and often absorbing book posits Populism as merely the political component of a complex cultural crisis in southern life felt by evangelical Protestants. Other scholars have recognized links between Populism and religion, pointing out similarities in rhetoric and organizational structures, the ways in which Populism and the Farmers' Alliance fulfilled the sociological functions of religion, and the often vehement Populist antipathy to churches. But in Righteous Indignation, Joe Creech also probes theological and ecclesiastical principles in an effort to provide a systematic reinterpretation of Populism.	1
Creech argues that evangelicalism was central to southern culture and shaped how people understood and reacted to social, economic, and political developments. Its origins in dissent and its emphasis on individual conversion and congregational autonomy led to egalitarianism and resistance to hierarchical authority. At the same time, however, its pervasiveness, belief in absolute rules, and emphasis on personal and community discipline encouraged submission to established authorities and acceptance of cultural norms such as racism.	. . .

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