Religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture, with results that range from portraits of Jesus on black velvet to the soul-stirring orations of Martin Luther King Jr. In "Judgement and Grace in Dixie", Charles Reagan Wilson makes a lively appraisal of religion's influence on such expressions of regional life as literature, music and folk art, as well as on such public spectacles as football games and beauty pageants. Wilson's focus is on popular religion - evangelical Protestantism as embraced at the grassroots level, where distinctions between the sacred and secular are blurred and belief in the supernatural remains strong. As he traces the development and meaning of popular religion and pop culture, Wilson ranges widely across a spiritual landscape rich in iconic accumulations of people, places, events and artifacts - church fans and Elvis Presley memorabilia, the paintings of Howard Finster and the songs of Hank Williams, the Scopes trial and the death of Bear Bryant.
- ISBN10 0820319074
- ISBN13 9780820319070
- Publish Date 1 March 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 September 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Georgia Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English