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The Christ-Haunted Landscape

Author : Susan Ketchin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800966
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Christ-Haunted Landscape written by Susan Ketchin and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are Susan Ketchin's discerning interviews with twelve southerners living and writing in the South, and along with a piece of fiction by each are her penetrating commentaries about the impact of southern religious experience on their work. A little more than a generation ago Flannery O'Connor made a startling observation about herself and her fellow southerners: “By and large,” she said, “people in the South still conceive of humanity in theological terms. While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. The southerner who isn't convinced of it is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God.” Guided by O'Connor's perceptive commentary about southerners in general, Susan Ketchin has created a deeply revealing collection that mirrors the pervasive role of religion in the literature by the recent generation of notable southern writers. Ketchin confirms that “old-time religion” remains a potent force in the literature of the contemporary South.

The Christ-haunted Landscape, Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction, University Press of Mississippi, 1994

Author : Mamie Potter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book The Christ-haunted Landscape, Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction, University Press of Mississippi, 1994 written by Mamie Potter and published by . This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South

Author : Ralph C. Wood
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802829993
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by : Ralph C. Wood

Download or read book Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South written by Ralph C. Wood and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those looking to deepen their appreciation of Flannery O'Connor, Wood shows how this literary icon's stories, novels, and essays impinge on America's cultural and ecclesial condition.

James Lee Burke and the Soul of Dave Robicheaux

Author : Barbara Bogue
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786483105
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis James Lee Burke and the Soul of Dave Robicheaux by : Barbara Bogue

Download or read book James Lee Burke and the Soul of Dave Robicheaux written by Barbara Bogue and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he created the character Dave Robicheaux, author James Lee Burke lent the New Orleans homicide detective a few of his own characteristics: a daughter named Alafair, a lifetime struggle with alcohol, his Roman Catholic faith, and his love for fishing and the outdoors. On the other hand, Robicheaux is portrayed as a veteran of the Vietnam war, something Burke never experienced firsthand. Yet the demons Burke has known allow him to write convincingly about demons he never knew. Thus Burke has created a realistic, complex and compelling protagonist for his crime fiction series. That depth is one element that elevates Burke's writing above the status of genre fiction. This book explores how James Lee Burke, through the first person narrative of detective Dave Robicheaux, probes the world of law and order, crime and disorder, and one man's internal conflicts with modern moral issues. The first chapter reveals the similarities and differences between real life creator and fictional protagonist. Next, chapters arranged by theme explore the roles of women, Robicheaux's paternal side as revealed through his adopted daughter, the paternal influences in the detective's own life, and the contrasting personality of his half-brother, Jimmie. The next chapters probe the roots of the detective's moral dilemmas: his battle with alcohol, the Vietnam war's lingering trauma, and religion. Next the author explores Burke's use of the supernatural, sense of place, and music to deepen his stories. Final chapters delve into Robicheaux's moral quandaries as a law enforcement officer, the character's contrast to his reckless and funny partner, Clete, and how Burke reveals truths about life through Robicheaux. An interview with Burke is included.

Secular Steeples 2nd edition

Author : Conrad Ostwalt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441183418
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Secular Steeples 2nd edition written by Conrad Ostwalt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of secularization in America, this book provides students with an innovative way of understanding the relationship between religion and secular culture. In Secular Steeples, Conrad Ostwalt challenges long-held assumptions about the relationship between religion and culture and about the impact of secularization. Moving away from the idea that religion will diminish as secularization continues, Ostwalt identifies areas of popular culture where secular and sacred views and objectives interact and enrich each other. The book demonstrates how religious institutions use the secular and popular media of television, movies, and music to make sacred teachings relevant. From megachurches to sports arenas, the Bible to Harry Potter, biker churches to virtual worship communities, Ostwalt demonstrates how religion persists across cultural forms, secular and sacred, with secular culture expressing religious messages and sometimes containing more authentic religious content than official religious teachings. An ideal text for anyone studying religion and popular culture, each chapter provides questions for discussion, a list of important terms and guided readings.

At the Altar of Lynching

Author : Donald G. Mathews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107182972
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book At the Altar of Lynching written by Donald G. Mathews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new interpretation of the lynching of Sam Hose through the lens of the religious culture in the evangelical American South.

With signs following

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617035395
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book With signs following written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From hand-rendered folk signs to high-dollar church marquees, religious messages and imagery saturate the landscape of the American South. In With Signs Following, photographer and southern studies scholar Joe York introduces readers to the role of artistic, witty advertising in southern churches. In seventy black-and-white images of religious signs and other ephemera, he simultaneously presents the factual while encouraging reflection and introspection. Though York's pictures speak volumes, With Signs Following features an equally compelling essay by York. This piece seeks the stories of the sign makers through informal interviews. The combination of images and text offers an insightful, humorous, historically grounded perspective on one of the South's most familiar scenes. In collecting images of religious roadside signs from across the region and interviews with the evangelicals who put them there, Joe York shows us the "Christ-haunted" South as it has never before been considered. Joe York is a freelance photographer and a producer and director of documentary films for the Center for Documentary Projects and the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi. Charles Reagan Wilson is director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

Reading, Learning, Teaching Clyde Edgerton

Author : Yvonne Mason
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820481432
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Reading, Learning, Teaching Clyde Edgerton written by Yvonne Mason and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to the literature of contemporary American writer Clyde Edgerton. A North Carolina native, Edgerton has been compared to Mark Twain for his easy, humorous style, which is based in oral tradition. Like Twain and other humorous writers, Edgerton's work often contains both biting satire and exploration of very large questions about the human condition. The book contains an overview of each of his novels and his memoir in addition to offering critical commentary on theme, craft, and structure. Pedagogical support is offered with specific strategies that will encourage authentic engagement and learning. Teachers will find specific companion pieces of literature for introducing Edgerton's vivid and challenging work. This book presents the case for including more of Clyde Edgerton's work in our secondary and college English language arts classrooms as a means of revitalizing curricula and challenging the ways we traditionally think about teaching.

A False Sense of Well Being

Author : Jeanne Braselton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307484610
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A False Sense of Well Being written by Jeanne Braselton and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I was married eleven years before I started imagining how different life could be if my husband were dead. . . .” At thirty-eight, Jessie Maddox subscribes to House Beautiful, Southern Living, even Psychology Today. She has a comfortable life in Glenville, Georgia, with Turner, the most reliable, responsible husband in the world. But after the storybook romance, “happily ever after” never came. Now the housewife who once wanted to be Martha Stewart before there was a Martha Stewart is left to wonder: Where did the marriage go wrong? Why can’t she stop picturing herself as the perfect grieving widow? As Jessie dives headlong into her midlife crisis, she is aided and abetted by a colorful cast of characters in the true Southern tradition: her best friend and next door neighbor Donna, who is having a wild adulterous affair with a younger man; Wanda McNab, the sweater-knitting, cookie-baking grandmother who is charged with killing her abusive husband. Then there’s Jessie’s eccentric family. Her younger sister Ellen, born to be a guest on Jerry Springer, has taken her seven-year-old son and squawking pet birds and left her husband “for good this time” . . . while their mother crosses the dirty words out of library books and alerts everyone to the wonderful bargains at Winn-Dixie, often at the same time. And then there’s the stuffed green headless duck . . . When a trip home to the small town of her childhood raises more questions than it answers, Jessie is forced to face the startling truth head-on–and confront the tragedy that has shadowed her heart and shaken her faith in love . . . and the future. From a brilliant new voice in fiction, here is a darkly comic novel full of revelation and insight. The danger of secrets and the power of confession . . . The pull of family, no matter how crazy. . . The fate of wedlock when one can’t find the key . . . Jeanne Braselton weaves these potent themes into a funny, poignant, utterly engaging story of a woman at the crossroads–and the unforgettable journey she must take to get back home.

Issue VIII

Author : scissors and spackle
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105942198
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Issue VIII written by scissors and spackle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issue eight is an expedition, a road trip. We follow the breadcrumbs of spilled sentences from the Deep South, where Terry Barr questions his relationship with his heritage, his soil and his child, to the cluttered streets of India with critically acclaimed screenwriter and actress, Radha Bharadwaj, as she peeks under the covers of sibling love and rivalry. We gather roots and feathers with C. Malcolm Ellsworth in Farmer's Daughter. We eavesdrop on faith, feminism and femininity in taxi back-seats on the roads of Uzbekistan and Egypt with Kristen Hoggatt. Issue eight peeks through the cracks of Labor Day bedrooms and allows us to spy, for just a moment, on other people secrets and stories.

Protestantism in America

Author : Randall Balmer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231507691
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Protestantism in America written by Randall Balmer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As America has become more pluralistic, Protestantism, with its long roots in American history and culture, has hardly remained static. This finely crafted portrait of a remarkably complex group of Christian denominations describes Protestantism's history, constituent subgroups and their activities, and the way in which its dialectic with American culture has shaped such facets of the wider society as healthcare, welfare, labor relations, gender roles, and political discourse. Part I provides an introduction to the religion's essential beliefs, a brief history, and a taxonomy of its primary American varieties. Part II shows the diversity of the tradition with vivid accounts of life and worship in a variety of mainline and evangelical churches. Part III explores the vexed relationship Protestantism maintains with critical social issues, including homosexuality, feminism, and social justice. The appendices include biographical sketches of notable Protestant leaders, a chronology, a glossary, and an annotated list of resources for further study.

Broken Hallelujah

Author : Darren J. N. Middleton
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739119273
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Broken Hallelujah written by Darren J. N. Middleton and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Kazantzakis's death, author Darren J. N. Middleton looks back on Kazantzakis's life and literary art to suggest that, contrary to popular belief, Kazantzakis and his views actually comport with the ideals of Christianity.

The Writer and the Cross

Author : Darren J.N. Middleton
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476646791
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Writer and the Cross written by Darren J.N. Middleton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritually engaged readers commonly look toward fiction to better understand the depth of a faithful life, and Christians are no exception. Many followers of Jesus value beautifully written, deftly characterized and pulse-quickening literary art that seems more satisfying than dry, tedious doctrinal textbooks. This book surveys 12 pieces of historical fiction that feature notable Christian thinkers. They include an illustrated children's book about St. Irenaeus of Lyons, a novel about Martin Luther's Reformation, a screenplay focusing on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and even a story about Pope Francis narrated in popular manga style. Rather than arcane literary analyses, this book provides thoughtful and sometimes painful interviews with the authors of the covered works. Most interviewees are little known or emerging writers. Some have published their work with a church or denominational press, others with a major publishing empire or popular print-on-demand platforms. Storytellers reflect on their literary choices and the contexts of their writing, sharing what modern Christians can learn from historical religious fiction.

Preaching Conversations with Scholars

Author : Rodney Wallace Kennedy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498290736
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Preaching Conversations with Scholars written by Rodney Wallace Kennedy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an eye toward reuniting the church and the academy, this book focuses on the role that scholarship can play in making good preachers into really great preachers. This is the bridge between scholarly and popular writing that informs the sermon and makes it more powerful and meaningful for the people who regularly listen to sermons. Preachers are challenged to raise the level of their commitment to scholarship as well as overcome any pre-existing prejudices with scholarship. The preacher as scholar is the perfect way for the pulpit to respond to the challenges of a secular, post-modern world that often wonders if smart people can even believe in God.

As One with Authority, Second Edition

Author : Jackson W. Carroll
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621892883
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book As One with Authority, Second Edition written by Jackson W. Carroll and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congregations today face both old and often new, unprecedented challenges--spiritual, moral, technological, and economic--for which there are no easy solutions. Facing such challenges calls for pastors able to lead with authority in ways at the same time faithful to the gospel and appropriate to the congregation's setting and the issues at hand. Yet many pastors are unsure of their authority, often experiencing conflict as they attempt to lead. Others have abused their authority and brought mistrust and suspicion to ordained ministry, making it difficult for other clergy to lead. In this book, a new and revised edition of his earlier, highly regarded work on pastoral authority and leadership, Jackson Carroll brings together theological and sociological perspectives to provide an interpretation of pastoral authority as reflective leadership, a style of leadership that involves vision and discernment, and that is appropriate for the many roles in which pastors engage--preaching, worship leadership, teaching, counseling, and shaping the congregation's corporate life. In this new edition Carroll draws on what he has learned from many conversations with pastors and lay leaders since the book's initial publication as well as insights from others. He also introduces helpful new case material from practicing pastors and incorporates the perspectives of several recent leadership theorists and practitioners to deepen and enhance the discussion of pastoral authority as reflective leadership.

After Heaven

Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520222288
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book After Heaven written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consideration of the evolution of American spirituality over the past fifty years.

The Southern Way of Life

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469664992
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Southern Way of Life written by Charles Reagan Wilson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life—a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in national and global contexts, celebrated historian Charles Reagan Wilson assesses how diverse communities of southerners have sought to define the region's identity. Surveying three centuries of southern regional consciousness across many genres, disciplines, and cultural strains, Wilson considers and challenges prior presentations of the region, advancing a vision of southern culture that has always been plural, dynamic, and complicated by race and class. Structured in three parts, The Southern Way of Life takes readers on a journey from the colonial era to the present, from when complex ideas of "southern civilization" rooted in slaveholding and agrarianism dominated to the twenty-first-century rise of a modern, multicultural "southern living." As Wilson shows, there is no singular or essential South but rather a rich tapestry woven with contestations, contingencies, and change.