Bible Belt Baptists. Working towards Prosperity and Salvation
Bible Belt Baptists. Working towards Prosperity and Salvation

Summary/Abstract: The South of United States has often proclaimed itself as the last American bastion of authentic Christianity. There the teachings of Christ merged with a substrate of ultraconservative Anabaptist model of ecclesiastic and social organization. All of this is being topped by the reminiscences of the postcolonial racial hierarchy which resulted in the formation of a community model that has as trait marks hetero-determination, unclear boundaries between social and religious norms and a high desire for social validation of one’s worth. This paper attempts to highlight the social implication of religiosity on social and economic order in the South’s agrarian communities.

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