Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That oldtime religion, based on faith in an all-powerful God and an infallible Bible, is still deeply entrenched in the South. This assessment comes from one of the more knowing observers of the area: Erskine Caldwell, who immortalized the mores of Dixie in such bestselling novels as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre. In a new book of factual reporting called Deep South (Wey-bright & Talley; $6.50), Caldwell gives eyewitness testimony that the basic beliefs of many Southern churches have been left untouched by the changes affecting the rest of U.S. Christianity...
Probably the biggest plus that McCarthy carries into Wisconsin is his religion. The state is one-third Catholic, and more than 40 per cent of the primary vote will be cast in Catholic Democratic cities in the east. In the 1960 Kennedy-Humphrey contest, it was estimated that up to three-fourths of Wisconsin Catholics voted Catholic...
...Religion in a Technical Age, the last of Miller's seven books--a collection of essays in his paramount field of concern--has just been published by the Harvard University Press...
...filled--by the late Mark DeWolfe Howe, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Law--and finding a legal historian of Howe's stature (there aren't many legal historians in the first place) will be difficult. The remaining chairs are even more specialized--on the history of religion in America (though the divinity school may be close to announcing an appointment) and on the history of American education...
...dwelling on any one subject too long, he also commented on his heresy trial, the gold crisis, and his controversial religion...