- Additional Authors
- Description
- xix, 141 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Over more than three decades of teaching at the University of Mississippi, Charles Reagan Wilson's research and writing transformed southern studies in key ways. This volume pays tribute to and extends Wilson's seminal work on southern religion and culture. Using certain episodes and moments in southern religious history, the essays examine the place and power of religion in southern communities and society. It emulates Wilson's model, featuring both majority and minority voices from archives and applying a variety of methods to explain the South's religious diversity and how religion mattered in many arenas of private and public life, often with life-or-death stakes. The volume first concentrates on churches and ministers, and then considers religious and cultural constructions outside formal religious bodies and institutions. It examines the faiths expressed via the region's fields, streets, homes, public squares, recreational venues, roadsides, and stages. In doing so, this book shows that Wilson's groundbreaking work on religion is an essential part of southern studies and crucial for fostering deeper understanding of the South's complicated history and culture."--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern history series
- Uniform Title
- Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Church history.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Darren E. Grem -- Judgment, grace, race, and the transcendental blues: the study of religion in the South in the era of Charles Reagan Wilson / Paul Harvey -- Religious history and church history -- The riverbank politics of uncommon prayers in antebellum Arkansas / Ryan L. Fletcher -- Race and visions of John Lafayette Girardeau / Otis W. Pickett -- Having our own: the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and the struggle for Black autonomy in education / Alicia Jackson -- Religious history beyond institutions -- Spirit in the air: Pentecostal and Holiness media innovation in the twentieth-century South / Randall Stephens -- The pure of body are pure of soul?: Religion and the emerging sports culture of the New South / Arthur Remillard -- The land of misfit relics: Southern Protestants and the sacred play of cultural objects / Chad Seales -- Afterword: Charles Reagan Wilson as scholar, editor, innovator, and resonator / Ted Ownby.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2412
- ISBN
- LCCN
- 2018021907
- OCLC
- 1038431757
- Title
Southern religion, Southern culture : essays honoring Charles Reagan Wilson / edited by Darren E. Grem, Ted Ownby, and James G. Thomas, Jr.
- Publisher
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern history series
Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History series.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
Grem, Darren E., editor.
Ownby, Ted, editor.
Thomas, James G., Jr., editor.
Wilson, Charles Reagan, honouree.
- Other Form:
Online version: Southern religion, Southern culture. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018] 9781496820488 (DLC) 2018033400
- Research Call Number
JFE 19-2412