Title

Review: Darren Dochuk's 'From Bible Belt to Sun Belt'

Author(s)

William Vance Trollinger, University of DaytonFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

5-2012

Publication Source

Pacific Historical Review

Abstract

In From Bible Belt to Sun Belt, Darren Dochuk cogently observes that there is “a general tendency in political history to treat religion as an historical agent that pops up for a short time, makes some noise, surprises some people and scares others, but then suddenly disappears again to wait for its next release” (p. xxii). As a result, when it comes to the Religious Right, there has been a scholarly obsession with trying to explain its “sudden” emergence in the 1970s (an enterprise that often includes predictions of its imminent disappearance).

Inclusive pages

325-326

ISBN/ISSN

0030-8684

Document Version

Published Version

Comments

Published as a review of Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sun Belt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (W.W. Norton, 2010; ISBN: 978-0-393-06682-1); Pacific Historical Review 81(May 2012): 325-326.

Permission documentation is on file.

Copyright

Copyright © 2012, Regents of the University of California.

Publisher

University of California Press

Volume

81

Issue

2

eCommons Citation

Trollinger, William Vance, "Review: Darren Dochuk's 'From Bible Belt to Sun Belt'" (2012). History Faculty Publications. 26.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/hst_fac_pub/26