Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis
by Charles Reagan Wilson
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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 Judgment 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 show more 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--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. show lessTags
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Charles Reagan Wilson is director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and professor of history at the University of Mississippi
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, History
- DDC/MDS
- 306.60975 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Religious institutions Biography And History North America
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- BR535 .W55 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christianity Christianity History By region or country
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