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- catalog abstract ""Southern history can be illuminated by the categories of the unjust, the tragic, the ambiguous, and the demonic, as defined by Kenneth Cauthen. This book provides a unique interpretation of some of the darker sides of Southern history that adds to previous understandings of the history, religion, economics, politics, and culture of that special region. No one else has written about the South combining these interpretive categories into a single narrative." "While Cauthen does not seek to present new facts about the South, these facts take on new meaning in this lively and provocative interpretation. Issues of race, class, culture, and the complex relationships among them are illuminated by bringing to bear the interrelated and interacting factors of injustice, the tragic, the demonic, and the ambiguous. The work cautions against a shallow moralism that sees events in terms of a simple conflict between good and evil, right and wrong. It also warns against exaggerated notions of human freedom that put no limits on what might have been if people had only chosen differently and suggests that the total complex of conditions under which moral agents exercised their powers of choice in the South were such that the course Southern history took was highly probable and to have been expected."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12809796.
- catalog coverage "Southern States History Philosophy.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States History.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States Moral conditions.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Southern history can be illuminated by the categories of the unjust, the tragic, the ambiguous, and the demonic, as defined by Kenneth Cauthen. This book provides a unique interpretation of some of the darker sides of Southern history that adds to previous understandings of the history, religion, economics, politics, and culture of that special region. No one else has written about the South combining these interpretive categories into a single narrative."".
- catalog description ""While Cauthen does not seek to present new facts about the South, these facts take on new meaning in this lively and provocative interpretation. Issues of race, class, culture, and the complex relationships among them are illuminated by bringing to bear the interrelated and interacting factors of injustice, the tragic, the demonic, and the ambiguous. The work cautions against a shallow moralism that sees events in terms of a simple conflict between good and evil, right and wrong.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-144) and index.".
- catalog description "It also warns against exaggerated notions of human freedom that put no limits on what might have been if people had only chosen differently and suggests that the total complex of conditions under which moral agents exercised their powers of choice in the South were such that the course Southern history took was highly probable and to have been expected."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Morality : not all black and white, more than right and wrong -- Irony : promise and reality -- Religion : church and culture in symbiosis -- Demagoguery : the politics of bombast -- Continuity and change : the latest New South -- Into the twenty-first century.".
- catalog extent "xii, 146 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "I don't care what the Bible says.".
- catalog identifier "0865548137 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "I don't care what the Bible says.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Macon : Mercer University Press,".
- catalog relation "I don't care what the Bible says.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States History Philosophy.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States History.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Moral conditions.".
- catalog subject "975/.04 21".
- catalog subject "F209 .C36 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Morality : not all black and white, more than right and wrong -- Irony : promise and reality -- Religion : church and culture in symbiosis -- Demagoguery : the politics of bombast -- Continuity and change : the latest New South -- Into the twenty-first century.".
- catalog title "I don't care what the Bible says : an interpretation of the South / Kenneth Cauthen.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".