Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South

by Swetnam Mathews, Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews, Mary Beth

Long before the red state/blue state divide, Americans have tended to think of the South as a natural home to and birthplace of Christian fundamentalism. Despite historical evidence and scholarly research to the contrary, the view of the South as a fundamentalist center persists. Rethinking Zion documents the process by which the South received its fundamentalist label and chronicles the forces at work in creating the image of the South as the Bible...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572334932
• ISBN13: 9781572334939
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"