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No Depression in heaven : the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the transformation of religion in the Delta /

This revised award-winning Yale dissertation brings to life the distinct but intersecting worlds of black and white Americans during the Depression. A collapsing cotton economy, alternating floods and droughts and racial stratification meant that hard times came early and stayed late in Memphis and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greene, Alison Collis
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Arkansas Delta (Ark.) > Religion > 20th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) > Religion > 20th century.
Arkansas Delta (Ark.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Depressions > 1929 > Arkansas > Arkansas Delta.
Depressions > 1929 > Tennessee > Memphis.
New Deal, 1933-1939 > Arkansas > Arkansas Delta.
New Deal, 1933-1939 > Tennessee > Memphis.
Social change > Arkansas > Arkansas Delta > History.
Social change > Tennessee > Memphis > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: We Didn't Know We Was Poor
  • Part I: Crisis
  • Depression-Whipped
  • Part II: Depression Religion
  • A Spiritual Famine
  • Where to Send People for Help?
  • Part III: The New Deal
  • A Political Deal or Divine Providence?
  • Not One Cent for Religion
  • Part IV: Religion Reinvented
  • New Religious Alliances
  • Epilogue: Revivals and Reversals
  • Appendix: Denominations Guide.