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Flashes of a southern spirit

Wilson, Charles Reagan.

Flashes of a southern spirit meanings of the spirit in the U.S. South / [electronic resource] : Charles Reagan Wilson. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xviii, 249 p., [16] p. of plates :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780820339566 0820339563




Spirituality--Social aspects--Southern States.
Spiritual life--Social aspects--Southern States.
Group identity--Southern States.
Regionalism--Southern States.


Southern States--Religion--Social aspects.
Southern States--Religious life and customs.
Southern States--Civilization.


Electronic books.

F209.5 / .W55 2011

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