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Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis - Softcover

Wilson, Charles Reagan

 
9780820329659: Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0820329657 ISBN 13: 9780820329659
Verlag: UNIV OF GEORGIA PR, 2007

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<p>Religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture, with results that range from portraits of Jesus on black velvet to the soul-stirring orations of Martin Luther King Jr. In <i>Judgment and Grace in Dixie</i>, Charles Reagan Wilson makes a lively appraisal of religion's influence on such expressions of regional life as literature, music, and folk art, as well as on such public spectacles as football games and beauty pageants.</p><p>Wilson's focus is on popular religion&mdash;evangelical Protestantism as embraced at the grassroots level, where distinctions between the sacred and secular are blurred and belief in the supernatural remains strong. As he traces the development and meaning of popular religion and pop culture, Wilson ranges widely across a spiritual landscape rich in iconic accumulations of people, places, events, and artifacts&mdash;church fans and Elvis Presley memorabilia, the painting of Howard Finster and the songs of Hank Williams, the Scopes trial and the death of Bear Bryant.</p>

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CHARLES REAGAN WILSON is director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and a professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He is coeditor of the <i>Encyclopedia of Southern Culture</i> and author of <i>Baptized in Blood</i> (Georgia).

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In the essays collected in Judgement and Grace in Dixie, Charles Reagan Wilson makes a lively appraisal of religion's influence on such expressions of regional life as literature, music, and folk art, as well as on such public spectacles as football games and beauty pageants. Wilson's focus is on popular religion - evangelical Protestantism as embraced at the grassroots level, where distinctions between the sacred and secular are blurred and belief in the supernatural remains strong. As he traces the development and meaning of popular religion, Wilson ranges widely across a spiritual landscape rich in accumulations of people, places, events, and artifacts: church fans and Elvis Presley memorabilia, an African-American graveyard in the Mississippi Delta and a 27,000 member Baptist congregation in Dallas, the paintings of Howard Finster and the songs of Hank Williams, the Scopes trial and the death of Bear Bryant.

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Verlag
UNIV OF GEORGIA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0820329657
ISBN 13 
9780820329659
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
234
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