Righteous indignation : religion and the populist revolution / Joe Creech.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Creech, Joe, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and politics--United States--History--19th century.

Christianity and politics.

Populism--United States--History--19th century.

Populism.

United States--Church history--19th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Righteous Indignation uncovers what motivated conservative, mostly middle-class southern farmers to revolt against the Democratic Party by embracing the radical, even revolutionary biracial politics of the People's Party in the 1890s. While other historians of Populism have looked to economics, changing markets, or various ideals to explain this phenomenon, in Righteous Indignation, Joe Creech posits evangelical religion as the motive force behind the shift.This illuminating study shows how Populists wove their political and economic reforms into a grand cosmic narrative pitting the forces of God and democracy against those of Satan and tyranny, and energizing their movement with a sacred sense of urgency. This book also unpacks the southern Protestants' complicated approach to political and economic questions, as well as addressing broader issues about protest movements, race relations, and the American South.

Contents:

Section I: Evangelical establishment

An established antiestablishmentarianism : nineteenth-century North Carolina evangelicalism

Men and machines : freedom, conformity, and the complexities of Southern Evangelical thought

Section II: The voice of God in the Alliance Whirlwind

The Alliance Vorzeit

Religion and the rise of the Farmers' Alliance

Section III: Vox populi, vox dei

"Pure democracy and white supremacy" : the Democratic Party and the Farmers' Alliance

Crossing the rubicon : the Populist Revolt of 1892

Religion and the Populist Revolt

Victory, defeat, and disfranchisement, 1893-98

Epilogue: the end of an era, the end of a dream.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220) and index.

ISBN:

9786613155696

9781283155694

1283155699

9780252090912

0252090918

OCLC:

785782161