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Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920

Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920

Ownby, Ted

Paperback

Series: Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies

AnthropologyGeneral Gender StudiesRegional: South

ISBN10: 0807844292
ISBN13: 9780807844298
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Sep 30 1993
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.94 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complex -- and often opposing -- attitudes.

Ownby's re-creation of male recreation is rich and fascinating. He paints the saloon and the street, the cockfighting and dogfighting rings as realms of distinctly male vices, enjoyed lustily by men seeking to escape the sweet virtue of the Southern Christian home. -- Nation

A bold new thesis. . . . [Ownby] gives us guideposts in the ongoing search for the meaning of southern history. -- Journal of Southern History

I suspect that for many years ahead Ted Ownby's Subduing Satan will serve as the standard guide on how to write religious social history. -- Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida

This is one of the freshest and most interesting books written about the American South in years. By focusing on the cultural conflicts of everyday life, Ownby gets us right to the heart of white culture in the South between Reconstruction and the 1920s. -- Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia

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