Judgment and Grace in Dixie

Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis

By: Charles Reagan Wilson

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Paperback | 1 June 2007

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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 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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A brilliant excavation of religious strains in the southern psyche. - Commonweal ""A fascinating examination of the South's pervasive evangelical Protestantism. Anyone interested in the modern South will enjoy this engaging, well-written book."" - John Shelton Reed ""Provides affectionate readings of the objects, architecture, and landscapes of popular religion and brings this complex and shape-shifting practice into vivid focus."" - American Quarterly ""Anyone who wants to know more about contemporary southern religious and cultural life should start with this book."" - Christian Century ""Eclectic and suggestive... A book that intersects provocatively with the work of scholars such as Colleen McDannell, Ted Ownby, and Lawrence Levine on material culture, religion, and consumerism."" - Church History ""This collection entertains!... Wilson is an inspired eclectic and a strategic reader in scholarship produced in disciplines other than history."" - Southern Quarterly ""Highly readable and often thought-provoking, these essays make a notable contribution to our understanding of religion's influence in the South."" - Atlanta History

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture Law Jurisprudence & General Issues Systems of Law Ecclesiastical or Canon Law Religion & Beliefs

Christianity

Preface to the 2007 Edition: Popular Religion in the American South since the 1990s	p. ix
Preface to the Original Edition	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Introduction	p. xxv
Civil Religion
The Southern Religious Culture: Distinctiveness and Social Change	p. 3
"God's Project": The Southern Civil Religion, 1920-1980	p. 18
The Death of Bear Bryant: Myth and Ritual in the Modern South	p. 37
Expressive Culture
William Faulkner and the Southern Religious Culture	p. 55
Southern Religion and Visionary Art	p. 73
Digging Up Bones: Death in Country Music	p. 94
The South's Torturous Search for the Good Books	p. 110
Icons and Spaces
The Iconography of Elvis	p. 129
Sunday at the First Baptist Church	p. 139
The Cult of Beauty	p. 144
Unifying the Symbols of Southern Culture	p. 159
Sacred Southern Space	p. 164
Afterword: Popular Religion and the Southern Cultural Passage	p. 175
Notes	p. 179
Index	p. 197
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Judgment and Grace in Dixie

Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis

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