Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands

Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands PDF Author: Loyal Jones
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Book Description
Jones attacks what he sees as the historical dismissal of mountain religious life, as supported by nineteenth- and twentieth-century missionary movements bent on changing mountain life through better religion. He explores the creation and perpetuation of negative stereotypes as mainline Christians contended that "Upland Christians" had to be saved from themselves.