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Judgment & grace in Dixie : southern faiths from Faulkner to Elvis
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Judgment & grace in Dixie : southern faiths from Faulkner to Elvis

Charles Reagan Wilson

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Originally published: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c1995.

Contents

Preface to the 2007 edition: Popular religion in the American South since the 1990s
Preface to the original edition
Civil religion
The southern religious culture : distinctiveness and social change
"God's project" : the southern civil religion, 1920-1980
The death of Bear Bryant : myth and ritual in the modern south
Expressive culture
William Faulkner and the southern religious culture
Southern religion and visionary art
Digging up bones : death in country music
The south's torturous search for the good books
Icons and spaces
The iconography of Elvis
Sunday at the First Baptist Church
The cult of beauty
Unifying the symbols of southern culture
Sacred southern space
Afterword: Popular religion and the southern cultural passage.

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