Dabbs, James McBride. Haunted by God. Richmond, Virginia: John Knox Press, 1972. First Edition. ISBN: 0804208220. [11359]
Olive cloth with dust jacket, 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 253 clean pages. Small "withdrawn" stamp on ffep, no other markings (this comes to us from an historical society purchase). Dust jacket with light edge-wear, now in a clear wrapper. Very good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover.
Cover title: Haunted by God: The Cultural and Religious Experience of the South.
"Part One explores the culture of the South, especially the three forces which have dominated it - the plantation, the family, and slavery. Parts Two and Three probe the spiritual ironies of the South and the interweaving of its religion with its culture. For Dabbs, the South is a land of paradox - of powerful and prestigious plantations bounded by untamed frontiers, of rugged individualism coupled with a strong sense of community, of a passionate striving for freedom yet with everyone 'in his place,' of God's haunting presence as the South's greatest resource and its greatest danger." - publisher.
