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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199371873
ISBN-13
9780199371877
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211323784
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Number of Pages
336 Pages, 320 Pages
Publication Name
No Depression in Heaven : The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Subject
United States / 20th Century, Economic History, Sociology / General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), History
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Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
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Hardcover
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1.2 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
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9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
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Scholarly & Professional
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2015-018302
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23
Reviews
"No Depression in Heaven is a compelling and beautifully written story of the ways in which poverty, welfare, God, and Roosevelt shaped Americans' lives in the 1930s. Greene has provided an excellent history based on first-rate research that speaks in important ways to the present as much as to the past." --Matthew Avery Sutton, author of American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism "While historians have long understood the Great Depression as a decade of political and economic upheaval, Alison Collis Greene brilliantly demonstrates that it sparked a revolution in American religion too. With deeply grounded research and soaring prose, No Depression in Heaven forces us to rethink the tangled relationship between religion and politics in modern American history in innovative and exciting ways." --Kevin M. Kruse, author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America "In her eloquent, incisive, and ultimately heart-breaking book, Alison Greene captures not only the excruciating local effects of the Great Depression, but the powerlessness of local religious institutions in the face of such extreme want. Her work shows us, in elegant prose, that the intensely local consequences of economic collapse in the American south, nourished by racism and myths of self-determination, grew to reshape both the nation and its memories of itself in crisis. No Depression in Heaven provides historians of religion in America an exemplary model for making sense of this devastating period in American history." --Jonathan H. Ebel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "A gifted historian with a novelist's ear, Alison Greene discerns the texture of lived experience in the most recalcitrant sources. No Depression in Heaven is a masterful work of social history. Equally attentive to the intimate and the political, Greene shows how deeply fraught the responses of the people of the Delta were to the upheavals and transformations of the 1930s. She also demonstrates that religious history at its best is about how people fight, often in ways that are destructive to themselves and others, to make lives for themselves on the razor edge of change." --Robert A. Orsi, Northwestern University, "No Depression in Heaven delivers even more than its ambitious title promises While No Depression in Heaven is a history of how religion changed in the Delta, it is also a thoughtful reminder of how interpersonal and structural racism, capitalism and economics, environmental degradation, and national, state, and local politics worked together to create a society marked by economic disparity and its attendant human suffering--hunger and malnutrition chief among them--all kept in place by white supremacy, and specifically anti-black terrorism While it is decidedly a history it is also a framework for understanding contemporary arguments about the current and future state of the social safety net and an argument for the importance of the study of history for today's politicians and church leaders."--Reading Religion "No Depression in Heaven is a compelling and beautifully written story of the ways in which poverty, welfare, God, and Roosevelt shaped Americans' lives in the 1930s. Greene has provided an excellent history based on first-rate research that speaks in important ways to the present as much as to the past." --Matthew Avery Sutton, author of American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism "Combines powerful stories and brilliant historical analysis to reveal an important chapter in the reconfiguration of church-state relationships. A vital and important book. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."-CHOICE "While historians have long understood the Great Depression as a decade of political and economic upheaval, Alison Collis Greene brilliantly demonstrates that it sparked a revolution in American religion too. With deeply grounded research and soaring prose, No Depression in Heaven forces us to rethink the tangled relationship between religion and politics in modern American history in innovative and exciting ways." --Kevin M. Kruse, author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America "In her eloquent, incisive, and ultimately heart-breaking book, Alison Greene captures not only the excruciating local effects of the Great Depression, but the powerlessness of local religious institutions in the face of such extreme want. Her work shows us, in elegant prose, that the intensely local consequences of economic collapse in the American south, nourished by racism and myths of self-determination, grew to reshape both the nation and its memories of itself in crisis. No Depression in Heaven provides historians of religion in America an exemplary model for making sense of this devastating period in American history." --Jonathan H. Ebel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "A gifted historian with a novelist's ear, Alison Greene discerns the texture of lived experience in the most recalcitrant sources. No Depression in Heaven is a masterful work of social history. Equally attentive to the intimate and the political, Greene shows how deeply fraught the responses of the people of the Delta were to the upheavals and transformations of the 1930s. She also demonstrates that religious history at its best is about how people fight, often in ways that are destructive to themselves and others, to make lives for themselves on the razor edge of change." --Robert A. Orsi, Northwestern University, "No Depression in Heaven is a compelling and beautifully written story of the ways in which poverty, welfare, God, and Roosevelt shaped Americans' lives in the 1930s. Greene has provided an excellent history based on first-rate research that speaks in important ways to the present as much as to the past." --Matthew Avery Sutton, author of American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism "Combines powerful stories and brilliant historical analysis to reveal an important chapter in the reconfiguration of church-state relationships. A vital and important book. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."-CHOICE "While historians have long understood the Great Depression as a decade of political and economic upheaval, Alison Collis Greene brilliantly demonstrates that it sparked a revolution in American religion too. With deeply grounded research and soaring prose, No Depression in Heaven forces us to rethink the tangled relationship between religion and politics in modern American history in innovative and exciting ways." --Kevin M. Kruse, author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America "In her eloquent, incisive, and ultimately heart-breaking book, Alison Greene captures not only the excruciating local effects of the Great Depression, but the powerlessness of local religious institutions in the face of such extreme want. Her work shows us, in elegant prose, that the intensely local consequences of economic collapse in the American south, nourished by racism and myths of self-determination, grew to reshape both the nation and its memories of itself in crisis. No Depression in Heaven provides historians of religion in America an exemplary model for making sense of this devastating period in American history." --Jonathan H. Ebel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "A gifted historian with a novelist's ear, Alison Greene discerns the texture of lived experience in the most recalcitrant sources. No Depression in Heaven is a masterful work of social history. Equally attentive to the intimate and the political, Greene shows how deeply fraught the responses of the people of the Delta were to the upheavals and transformations of the 1930s. She also demonstrates that religious history at its best is about how people fight, often in ways that are destructive to themselves and others, to make lives for themselves on the razor edge of change." --Robert A. Orsi, Northwestern University, "No Depression in Heaven is a compelling and beautifully written story of the ways in which poverty, welfare, God, and Roosevelt shaped Americans' lives in the 1930s. Greene has provided an excellent history based on first-rate research that speaks in important ways to the present as much as to the past." --Matthew Avery Sutton, author of American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism "While historians have long understood the Great Depression as a decade of political and economic upheaval, Alison Collis Greene brilliantly demonstrates that it sparked a revolution in American religion too. With deeply grounded research and soaring prose, No Depression in Heaven forces us to rethink the tangled relationship between religion and politics in modern American history in innovative and exciting ways." --Kevin M. Kruse, author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America "In her eloquent, incisive, and ultimately heart-breaking book, Alison Greene captures not only the excruciating local effects of the Great Depression, but the powerlessness of local religious institutions in the face of such extreme want. Her work shows us, in elegant prose, that the intensely local consequences of economic collapse in the American south, nourished by racism and myths of self-determination, grew to reshape both the nation and its memories of itself in crisis. No Depression in Heaven provides historians of religion in America an exemplary model for making sense of this devastating period in American history." --Jonathan H. Ebel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "A gifted historian with a novelist's ear, Alison Greene discerns the texture of lived experience in the most recalcitrant sources. No Depression in Heaven is a masterful work of social history. Equally attentive to the intimate and the political, Greene shows how deeply fraught the responses of the people of the Delta were to the upheavals and transformations of the 1930s. She also demonstrates that religious history at its best is about how people fight, often in ways that are destructive to themselves and others, to make lives for themselves on the razor edge of change." --Robert A. Orsi, Northwestern University "This book combines powerful stories and brilliant historical analysis to reveal an important chapter in the reconfiguration of church-state relationships. A vital and important book." -Choice
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
277.678082
Table Of Content
Introduction: We Didn't Know We Was Poor Part I: Crisis Chapter 1: Depression-Whipped Part II: Depression Religion Chapter 2: A Spiritual Famine Chapter 3: Where to Send People for Help Part III: The New Deal Chapter 4: A Political Deal or Divine Providence? Chapter 5: Not One Cent for Religion Part IV: Religion Reinvented Chapter 6: New Religious Alliances Epilogue: Reversals and Revivals Appendix: Major Religious Groups and Denominations in Memphis and the Delta Notes Bibliography Index, Introduction: We Didn't Know We Was PoorPart I: The Great Depression, 1929-1933Prelude1. Depression Whipped2. A Spiritual Famine3. Where to Send People for Help? . Part II: The New Deal, 1933-19414. A Political Deal or Divine Providence?Part II: The New Deal, 1933-19415. Chart: From Private to Public Aid6. Not One Cent for ReligionConclusionAppendix: Denominations GuideNotesBibliographyIndex
Synopsis
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., Nowhere was the transition from church-based aid to federal welfare state brought about by the Great Depression more dramatic than in the South. For a moment, the southern Protestant establishment turned to face the suffering that plantation capitalism pushed behind its image of planter's hats and hoopskirts. When starving white farmers marched into an Arkansas town to demand food for their dying children and when priests turned away hungry widows and orphans because they were no needier than anyone else, southern clergy of both races spoke with one voice to say that they had done all they could. It was time for a higher power to intervene. They looked to God, and then they looked to Roosevelt.When Roosevelt promised a new deal for the "forgotten man," Americans cheered, and when he took office, churches and private agencies gratefully turned much of the responsibility for welfare and social reform over to the state. Yet, argues historian Allison Collis Greene, Roosevelt's New Deal threatened plantation capitalism even while bending to it. Black southern churches worked to secure benefits for their own communities while white churches divided over loyalties to Roosevelt and Jim Crow. Frustrated by their failure and fractured by divisions over the New Deal, leaders in the major white Protestant denominations surrendered their moral authority in the South. Although the Protestant establishment retained a central role in American life for decades after the Depression, its slip from power made room for upstart Pentecostals and independent evangelicals, who emphasized personal rather than social salvation., 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., 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., A study of the inability of the churches to deal with the crisis of the Great Depression and the shift from church-based aid to a federal welfare state.
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BL2527.A63G73 2016
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