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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.

Flashes of a Southern Spirit

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820339563
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Flashes of a Southern Spirit written by Charles Reagan Wilson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flashes of a Southern Spirit explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness. Charles Reagan Wilson sees ideas of the spirit as central to understanding southern identity. The South nurtured a patriotic spirit expressed in the high emotions of Confederates going off to war, but the region also was the setting for a spiritual outpouring of prayer and song during the civil rights movement. Arguing for a spiritual grounding to southern identity, Wilson shows how identifications of the spirit are crucial to understanding what makes southerners invest so much meaning in their regional identity. From the late nineteenth-century invention of southern tradition to early twenty-first-century folk artistic creativity, Wilson examines a wide range of cultural expression, including music, literature, folk art, media representations, and religious imagery. He finds new meanings in the works of such creative giants as William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Elvis Presley, while at the same time closely examining little-studied figures such as the artist/revivalist McKendree Long. Wilson proposes that southern spirituality is a neglected category of analysis in the recent flourishing of interdisciplinary studies on the South--one that opens up the cultural interaction of blacks and whites in the region.

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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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.

Preachers and Misfits, Prophets and Thieves

Author : G. Lee Ramsey
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664232248
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Preachers and Misfits, Prophets and Thieves written by G. Lee Ramsey and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling book, G. Lee Ramsey Jr.mines the riches of southern fiction and discovers a colorful assortment of ministers who arise out of the religious South. At once mystical and mischievous, these ministers haunt the margins of southern life while preaching a gospel that startles and compels. But their oddness is also their appeal--and part of their gift. For through these colorful portraits of Christian ministry, today's readers are challenged to think about what matters in ministry and to re-imagine ministry in ways that bring new life to the church and community. Throughout, Ramsey shows how ministers such as Roger Hagan in Will Campbell's The Conventionand Hazel Motes in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Bloodcan help show us the stumbling blocks to faithful ministry and steer clergy and congregations forward in today's world.

Secular Steeples

Author : Conrad Ostwalt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1563383616
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Secular Steeples written by Conrad Ostwalt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-03-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conrad Ostwalt explores the confluence of religion and popular cultural forms in the secular world, demonstrating that a secular religiosity has co-opted some of the functions previously reserved for religions institutions.

Secular Steeples 2nd edition

Author : Conrad Ostwalt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441123148
Total Pages : 334 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 334 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.

Voicing the Self

Author : Carmen Rueda Ramos
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8437084040
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Voicing the Self written by Carmen Rueda Ramos and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro analiza la manera con la que Lee Smith ha dado voz a todos los aspectos de su experiencia tanto como mujer-artista que vive en la América contemporánea como nativa de la Appalachia, una región sureña que todavía conserva un fuerte sentimiento de la tradición oral y de vínculos con la comunidad. Smith revisa y altera el lenguaje y los mitos que han condicionado sus búsquedas de la identidad y han silenciado sus voces. Al realizarlo, explora la relación entre el heroísmo femenino y la creatividad de las mujeres como algo distinto a la de los hombres. En su lucha, las heroínas de Smith reflejan el desarrollo personal y artístico de la escritora. La relación conflictiva de sus personajes femeninos con la auto-afirmación y con el mundo de la Appalachia revela los propios sentimientos ambivalentes de Smith hacia el concepto de individualidad y hacia sus raíces culturales.

Larry Brown

Author : Jean W. Cash
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 160473986X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Larry Brown written by Jean W. Cash and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Brown (1951-2004) was unique among writers who started their careers in the late twentieth century. Unlike most of them-his friends Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Rick Bass, Kaye Gibbons, among others-he was neither a product of a writing program, nor did he teach at one. In fact, he did not even attend college. His innate talent, his immersion in the life of north Mississippi, and his determination led him to national success. Drawing on excerpts from numerous letters and material from interviews with family members and friends, Larry Brown: A Writer’s Life is the first biography of a landmark southern writer. Jean W. Cash explores the cultural milieu of Oxford, Mississippi, and the writers who influenced Brown, including William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Harry Crews, and Cormac McCarthy. She covers Brown's history in Mississippi, the troubled family in which he grew up, and his boyhood in Tula and Yocona, Mississippi, and in Memphis, Tennessee. She relates stories from Brown's time in the Marines, his early married life-which included sixteen years as an Oxford fireman-and what he called his "apprenticeship" period, the eight years during which he was teaching himself to write publishable fiction. The book examines Brown's years as a writer: the stories and novels he wrote, his struggles to acclimate himself to the fame his writing brought him, and his many trips outside Yocona, where he spent the last thirty years of his life. The book concludes with a discussion of his posthumous fame, including the publication of A Miracle of Catfish, the novel he had nearly completed just before his death. Brown's cadre of fans will relish this comprehensive portrait of the man and his work.

The Immaculate Mistake

Author : Rodney Wallace Kennedy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725286319
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Immaculate Mistake written by Rodney Wallace Kennedy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Donald Trump originated his political career by claiming that Barack Obama was not born in the USA. His “birtherism” theory was discredited, but there’s another possibility about birth. Evangelicals have given birth to Donald Trump in the immaculate mistake. Evangelicals are not a collection of dumb and irrational people; they are the creators of the demolition presidency of Trump. He is their child—the result of almost one hundred years of evangelical angst, resentment, and hurt. This is the story of how Trump has become a secular evangelical preacher and his message of fear, hatred, division, and getting even has captured the hearts and minds of evangelicals. Rather than dismissing them, this work takes them seriously and literally and offers a frank and disturbing series of portraits of their determination to win at all costs.

Will Campbell, Preacher Man

Author : Kyle Childress
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498202748
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Will Campbell, Preacher Man written by Kyle Childress and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays and sermons by Rodney Kennedy and Kyle Childress is focused on honoring the memory of Will Campbell--the prophet from the South who made a vocation of destroying sacred cows. The essays and sermons attempt to be true to the spirit of Will Campbell's devotion to the gospel above all else. It should not be surprising that the essays and sermons are about the business of deconstructing more sacred cows while lifting up the truth claims of the gospel.

Peculiar Crossroads

Author : Farrell O'Gorman
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807133354
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Peculiar Crossroads written by Farrell O'Gorman and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Peculiar Crossroads, Farrell O'Gorman explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's vision made them so valuable as southern fiction writers and social critics. Via their spiritual and philosophical concerns, O'Gorman asserts, these two unabashedly Catholic authors bequeathed a postmodern South of shopping malls and interstates imbued with as much meaning as Appomattox or Yoknapatawpha. O'Gorman builds his argument with biographical, historical, literary, and theological evidence, examining the writers' work through intriguing pairings, such as O'Connor's Wise Blood with Percy's The Moviegoer, and O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find with Percy's Lancelot. An impeccable exercise in literary history and criticism, Peculiar Crossroads renders a genuine understanding of the Catholic sensibility of both O'Connor and Percy and their influence among contemporary southern writers.

Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations

Author : Charles D. Thompson Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351928007
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations written by Charles D. Thompson Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous religions are now present not only in their places of origin but globally. They are significant parts of the pluralism and diversity of the contemporary world, especially when their performance enriches and/or challenges host populations. Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations engages with examples of communities with different experiences, expectations and evaluations of diaspora life. It contributes significantly to debates about indigenous cultures and religions, and to understandings of identity and alterity in late or post-modernity. This book promises to enrich understanding of indigenity, and of the globalized world in which indigenous people play diverse roles.

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.

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.