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The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945--1970

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The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945--1970 - Moore, Andrew S
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This new study argues persuasively that until the 1960s religion rivaled race as a boundary separating people in the South's Bible Belt. However, the civil rights movement contributed to social and political realignments along racial lines, causing a decline in anti-Catholicism. In a region marked by religious prejudice against them, Catholics refused to shrink from public view. Moore describes the separate subculture they created after World War II and explains how it sustained their religious identity as they marked out ...

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The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945--1970 2007, LSU Press, Baton Rouge

ISBN-13: 9780807132128

Hardcover