{"product_id":"strangers-below-primitive-baptists-and-american-culture-9781469624860","title":"Strangers Below: Primitive Baptists and American Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore the Bible Belt fastened itself across the South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over their faith's future, and a contrarian sect, self-named the Primitive Baptists, made its stand. Joshua Guthman here tells the story of how a band of antimissionary and antirevivalistic Baptists defended Calvinism, America's oldest Protestant creed, from what they feared were the unbridled forces of evangelical greed and power. In their harrowing confessions of faith and in the quavering uncertainty of their singing, Guthman finds the emotional catalyst of the Primitives' early nineteenth-century movement: a searing experience of doubt that motivated believers rather than paralyzed them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Primitives' old orthodoxies proved startlingly flexible. After the Civil War, African American Primitives elevated a renewed Calvinism coursing with freedom's energies. Tracing the faith into the twentieth century, Guthman demonstrates how a Primitive Baptist spirit, unmoored from its original theological underpinnings, seeped into the music of renowned southern artists such as Roscoe Holcomb and Ralph Stanley, whose \"high lonesome sound\" appealed to popular audiences searching for meaning in the drift of postwar American life. In an account that weaves together religious, emotional, and musical histories, \u003ci\u003eStrangers Below\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the unlikely but enduring influence of Primitive Baptists on American religious and cultural life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Guthman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 6.17w x 0.64d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469624860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eauthor bio for back cover of book (mentions the website, to be live Sept 1 2015: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoshua Guthman is assistant professor of history at Berea College. To listen to examples of the music in the book, and for more information on Joshua Guthman's work, visit http: \/\/www.strangersbelow.net.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115616231539,"sku":"9781469624860","price":52.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_60771dec-24ec-4fc1-a082-1f01bec7e22e.jpg?v=1781787438","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/strangers-below-primitive-baptists-and-american-culture-9781469624860","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}