Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.