Civil War South Paul Harvey Summary

In this analysis of religion in the Civil war south, Paul Harvey uses race and culture in describing southern religion in both priestly and prophetic. Paul Harvey argues the profound faith of believers in the civil war south. Harvey bases his analysis on three major points. First, theological racism, second racial interchange and third, Christian interracialism. Harvey concludes that even though theological racism dominated in the beginning, interracial exchanges and Christian interracial encounters fueled the civil rights movement and reversed racism in the post civil war south.

The book is divided into three parts, in the first section of the book Harvey brings out the explosive connections between religion and politics largely after the

In the second section Harvey demonstrates that the blacks and the whites in the south traded, molded, and grasped each other religious experience. The use of sermons, spiritual visions, and baptismal ceremonies were among those things that were shared between the southern whites and African Americans. These came out in American culture in music such as the roots of blues music, and opened the door later for sampling form great artist such as Elvis, Ray Charles, and Hank Williams.

Through the final two chapter Harvey discusses the fact that both black and white churches either all together left out or diminished the fight for civil rights, it still remained that religious beliefs where very important to the activist. This brought about a nonviolent piece to the civil rights puzzle, taking down the theological racism that had been in control for the previous years. In the final chapter Harvey replaced race with gender. Primarily stating that the fight to end racism was abandoned and replaced with the fight to keeping women