| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Paul Harvey. Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 338. $34.95.

About four decades ago, when serious scholarship on the religious history of the U.S. South began to proliferate, much of the work focused on the antebellum period or that of the middle third of the twentieth century. Relatively little attention was given to the period following the Civil War. What happened to the old proslavery theology? How did relations change between blacks and whites now that the churches were almost totally segregated? What role did white religion play in the hardening of segregation laws? In the midst of Populism and Progressivism, were there glimmers of religious progressivism as well? Were there prominent white theologians in the South who critiqued the regnant system of race relations, who reached out to their black brothers and sisters for a common purpose, who dared to imagine a different, a biracial, community of believers? Did denominational leaders and seminary theologians largely determine the beliefs and practices of the laypeople, or did folk theology and praxis differ significantly either by being more closed to progressive ideas or ahead of the curve? What was the response of black religious leaders and laypeople, acquiescence or protest or a subtle strategy to effect change? These are among the important questions that Paul Harvey investigates in his fascinating study of religion in the post-Civil War South.

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