Flashes of a Southern Spirit : Meanings of the Spirit in the U.S. South.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface. Spirit and a New Southern Studies -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. "The Soul-Life of the Land": Meanings of the Spirit in the U.S. South -- PART 1. TRADITION -- One. The Invention of Southern Tradition: The Writing and Ritualization of Southern History, 1880-1930 -- Two. The Burden of Southern Culture -- Three. Saturated Southerners: The South's Poor Whites and Southern Regional Consciousness -- Four. Our Land, Our Country: Faulkner, the South, and the American Way of Life -- Five. The Myth of the Biracial South -- Visualizing the Spirit after -- PART 2. CREATIVITY -- Six. Beyond the Sahara of the Bozart: Creativity and Southern Culture -- Seven. Flashes of the Spirit: Creativity and Southern Religion -- Eight. The Word and the Image: Self- Taught Art, the Bible, the Spirit, and Southern Creativity -- PART 3. SPIRITUALITY -- Nine. Apocalypse South: McKendree Long and Southern Evangelicalism -- Ten. "Just a Little Talk with Jesus": Elvis Presley, Religious Music, and Southern Spirituality -- Eleven. Richard Wright's Pagan Spain: A Southern Protestant Abroad -- Twelve. A Journey to Southern Religious Studies -- Afterword. Constructing and Experiencing the Spirit -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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