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

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

Wilson, Charles Reagan
Rankin, Tom

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral ChristianityGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0820329657
ISBN13: 9780820329659
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Jun 1 2007
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.66 Width: 9.15 Depth: 6.24
Language: English

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 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.

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