Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis - Charles Reagan Wilson

Religious beliefs and sentiments have 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 the essays collected in "Judgment 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.