Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town

by Chad E. Seales

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Tracing the religious history of Siler City, North Carolina, Chad E. Seales argues that southern whites cultivated their own regional brand of American secularism and employed it, alongside public religious performances, to claim and regulate public spaces. Over the course of the twentieth century, they wielded secularism to segregate racialized bodies, to challenge local changes resulting from civil rights legislation, and to respond to the arrival...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199860289

ISBN13:9780199860289

Release Date:December 2013

Publisher:OUP Us

Length:254 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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History Religion Religion & Spirituality

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