Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 by Ted Ownby

Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies

Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920

Ted Ownby

298 pages paperback 1990

2 editions

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complex--and often opposing--attitudes.Ownby's re-creation of male recreation is...

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