Liberation Theology Down on the Farm
Family Religious Values in the Antebellum South
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https://doi.org/10.1558/rsth.v27i2.127Keywords:
Liberation Theology, Family Religious values, Antebellum SouthAbstract
The central concern of this article is family values taught in the religion of southern working-class people in the antebellum United States. It uses a representative South Carolina family and focuses on the values in three different contexts: religion, family and labor. In living out their lives, working people encountered both success and failure. Their history is compared with the present-day family value discussion, as conducted by scholars such as James Dobson.
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