Charles Reagan Wilson

Judgment and Grace in Dixie

Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 158mm x 232mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780820329659
• ISBN-10: 0820329657
• Artikelnr.: 21473989

Autorenporträt

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).