| Edition |
Pbk. ed. |
| Description |
xxxi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c1995. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Southern States -- Religious life and customs.
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Southern States. |
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Southern States -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
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Evangelicalism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Evangelicalism. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Added Title |
Judgment and grace in Dixie |
| ISBN |
9780820329659 paperback alkaline paper |
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0820329657 paperback alkaline paper |
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