Agnosticism / Atheism: Book of the Week: Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt

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Book of the Week: Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt Feb 13th 2012, 08:00 Image courtesy PriceGrabber.com What is the American "Bible Belt" and how did it originate? Why did the most conservative strains of Christianity moved from New England down to the South? Much has been written about Southern evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity in America, but not a lot has been written about its very earliest origins: how a mostly Anglican region based upon money and commerce was converted to the Baptist and Methodist denominations based on authoritarianism and masculinity. Book of the Week: Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt

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