Description: No Depression in Heaven : The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta, Paperback by Greene, Alison Collis, ISBN 0190858311, ISBN-13 9780190858315, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In No Depression in Heaven, Alison Collis Greene demonstrates how the Great Depression and New Deal transformed the relationship between church and state. Grounded in Memphis and the Delta, this book traces the collapse of voluntarism, the link between southern religion and the New Deal, and
the gradual alienation of conservative Christianity from the state.
At the start of the Great Depression, churches and voluntary societies provided the only significant source of aid for those in need in the South. Limited in scope, divided by race, and designed to control the needy as much as to support them, religious aid collapsed under the burden of need in the
early 1930s. Hungry, homeless, and out-of-work Americans found that they had nowhere to turn at the most desolate moment of their lives.
Religious leaders joined a chorus of pleas for federal intervention in the crisis and a permanent social safety net.
They celebrated the New Deal as a religious triumph. Yet some complained that Franklin Roosevelt cut the churches out of his programs and lamented their lost moral authority. Still others found new opportunities within the New Deal. By the late 1930s, the pattern was set for decades of religious and
political realignment.
More than a study of religion and politics, No Depression in Heaven uncovers the stories of men and women who endured the Depression and sought in their religious worlds the spiritual resources to endure material deprivation. Its characters are rich and poor, black and white, mobile sharecroppers
and wealthy reformers, enamored of the federal government and appalled by it. Woven into this story of political and social transformation are stories of southern men and women who faced the greatest economic disaster of the twentieth century and tried to build a better world than the one they
inhabited.
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Book Title: No Depression in Heaven : The Great Depression, the New Deal, and
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Name: No Depression in Heaven : The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Economic History, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), History
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Author: Alison Collis Greene
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
