ISBN:
082033829X
,
0820338303
,
9780820338293
,
9780820338309
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 249 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
975
Keywords:
Regionalism
;
Group identity
;
Spiritual life
;
Spirituality
Description / Table of Contents:
The invention of southern tradition : the writing and ritualization of southern history, 1880-1930 -- The burden of southern culture -- Saturated southerners : the South's poor whites and southern regional consciousness -- Our land, our country : Faulkner, the South, and the American way of life -- The myth of the biracial South -- Beyond the Sahara of the Bozart : creativity and southern culture -- Flashes of the spirit : creativity and southern religion -- The word and the image : self-taught art, the Bible, the spirit, and southern creativity -- Apocalypse South : McKendree Long and southern evangelicalism -- "Just a little talk with Jesus" : Elvis Presley, religious music, and southern spirituality -- Richard Wright's pagan Spain : a southern Protestant abroad -- A journey to southern religious studies -- Afterword : constructing and experiencing the spirit.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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