| Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis Contributor(s): Wilson, Charles Reagan (Author), Rankin, Tom (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0820329657 ISBN-13: 9780820329659 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Religion | Christian Church - Canon & Ecclesiastical Law - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 306.609 |
| LCCN: 2007011374 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 9.15" W x 6.24" (0.81 lbs) 234 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wilson, Charles Reagan: - 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 Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and author of Baptized in Blood (Georgia). |