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Author Wilson, Charles Reagan

Title Flashes of a southern spirit : meanings of the spirit in the U.S. South / Charles Reagan Wilson
Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 249 pages) : illustrations
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Regionalism -- Southern States
Group identity -- Southern States
Spiritual life -- Social aspects -- Southern States
Spirituality -- Social aspects -- Southern States
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Spirituality -- Social aspects
Civilization
Group identity
Regionalism
Religion -- Social aspects
Spiritual life
Spirituality
SUBJECT Southern States -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125635
Southern States -- Religious life and customs
Southern States -- Religion -- Social aspects
Subject Southern States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010043511
ISBN 9780820339566
0820339563