| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Glenn Feldman, editor. Politics and Religion in the White South. (Religion in the South.) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2005. Pp. xiii, 386. $55.00.
The necessity of understanding the correlation between politics and religion in the white (or for that matter, the entire) South now seems a commonplace—in fact, an urgency—on the national scene. True as that is, the topic has not long been an area of sophisticated inquiry. Emerging in recent years has been a large company of historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars who are attuned to that urgency and have gone to work.	1
Glenn Feldman's edited collection of essays, a dozen in all (three have appeared earlier), reflects that fact and does so usefully by offering diverse pertinent perspectives. Feldman is more than editor; his own two essays, both richly referenced and boldly interpretive, constitute nearly a third of the material here. Nearly all of the twelve are directly historical or reflective of historical developments: for example, of the period 1890–1920 generally and of Jews in Atlanta in the New South period particularly. Three have to do with individual figures: Methodist activist Dorothy Rogers Tilly of the Progressive era and Donald Wildmon and Billy Graham, our contemporaries. Another focuses on political shifts and conflicts in a single state, Virginia, since the close of the Byrd machine days. Several others report on the fruits of survey research concerning voting patterns in recent elections. The South presented here is endlessly fascinating.	. . .

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