Southern Cross The Beginnings of the Bible Belt

"Though this book will be of principal interest to students of American religion and/or the American South, it has considerable pertinence to a lay readership, especially in Washington, where the so-called religious right is widely misunderstood and at times unfairly vilified. Christine Leigh Heyrman...has done a great deal of original research into the origins of the Southern evangelical movement, and has concluded that, like much else in American life, what it is today bears only scant resemblance to what it started out to be....[T]he most important lesson Heyrman teaches is that 'evangelicalism has never been a static, monolithic structure of belief and that is adherents have never been an undifferentiated mass.' ...The exigencies of politics and the oversimplifications of journalism have combined to portray the religious rights as considerably less complex than in fact it is, or ever was."Heyrman, Christine Leigh is the author of 'Southern Cross The Beginnings of the Bible Belt', published 1998 under ISBN 9780807847169 and ISBN 080784716X.