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John Hayes: On Class, Religion, and Politics - UNC Press Blog
Today we welcome a guest post from John Hayes, author of Hard, Hard Religion: Interracial Faith in the Poor South, on the history behind the increasing importance of class and religion on today's American political landscape. In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South’s poor--both white and black--to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the well-documented religious forms of the New South, people caught...
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