Judgment & Grace in Dixie

Whether in portraits of Jesus on black velvet or in the soul-stirring orations of Martin Luther King Jr., religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture. 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. Book jacket.

Charles Reagan Wilson is Kelly Gene Cook, Sr., Chair in History and Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865–1920, (both Georgia) and general editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

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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