Religión y laicismo hoy: en torno a Teresa de Ávila
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In: Biblioteca de investigación 44
In: American popular culture
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In: World affairs: a journal of ideas and debate, Band 160, Heft 4, S. 163
ISSN: 0043-8200
In: Spekulation und Erfahrung
In: Abt. 2, Untersuchungen 38
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 259
ISSN: 0032-3497
In: Journal of church and state: JCS, Band 10, S. 193-205
ISSN: 0021-969X
In: Contributions to the study of anthropology no. 9
In: Politics, religion & ideology, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 23-44
ISSN: 2156-7697
In: The working class in American history
Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association In Spirit of Rebellion, Jarod Roll documents an alternative tradition of American protest by linking working-class political movements to grassroots religious revivals. He reveals how ordinary rural citizens in the south used available resources and their shared faith to defend their agrarian livelihoods amid the political and economic upheaval of the first half of the twentieth century. On the frontier of the New Cotton South in Missouri's Bootheel, the relationships between black and white farmers were complicated by racial tensions and bitter competition. Despite these divisions, workers found common ground as dissidents fighting for economic security, decent housing, and basic health, ultimately drawing on the democratic potential of evangelical religion to wage working-class revolts against commodity agriculture and the political forces that buoyed it. Roll convincingly shows how the moral clarity and spiritual vigor these working people found in the burgeoning Pentecostal revivals gave them the courage and fortitude to develop an expansive agenda of workers' rights by tapping into the powers of existing organizations such as the Socialist Party, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the NAACP, and the interracial Southern Tenant Farmers' Union