Liquor in the land of the lost cause : southern white evangelicals and the prohibition movement / / Joe L. Coker.

• Superior document: Religion in the South
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Coker, Joe L., 1969-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Religion in the South.
• Physical Description: x, 329 p.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• "Distilled damnation" : temperance before 1880
• "It is not enough that the church should be sober" : drying up the South, 1880-1915
• "Why don't he give his attention to saving sinners?" : prohibition and politics
• "But what seek those dark ballots?" : prohibition and race
• "Let the cowards vote as they will, I'm for prohibition still" : prohibition and the southern cult of honor
• "Some of our best preachers part their hair in the middle" : prohibition and gender
• Conclusion.