Flashes of a southern spirit : meanings of the spirit in the U.S. South /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilson, Charles Reagan
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2011]
Subjects:	Southern States > Religion > Social aspects. Southern States > Religious life and customs. Southern States > Civilization. Spirituality > Social aspects > Southern States. Spiritual life > Social aspects > Southern States. Group identity > Southern States. Regionalism > Southern States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.