![]() ![]() ![]() Yet what is also helpful is that he has asked us to continuously reconsider how we even think about “the South.” Less concerned with defining the South as a particular set of traits that inevitably serve to delimit and exclude, Wilson’s goal, as Ted Ownby writes in the final essay in this volume, is to “study the ways different people at different times defined the region and its multiple meanings.” Beginning with his trailblazing assessment of the Lost Cause as a civil religion in “Baptized in Blood,” Wilson has encouraged an interdisciplinary method to considering the junctures between culture and religion. Wilson taught history and southern studies for over thirty years in Oxford and served as Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture for a decade. Bless his heart, but for those of us who have benefited from his mentorship and friendship, it’s the least one can do. ![]() Special to the Mississippi Clarion LedgerĬharles Reagan Wilson is likely a bit embarrassed that the University of Mississippi held a symposium honoring his decades of scholarship in advancing the study of southern religion and culture, and now there is this volume of essays from that conference. Thomas, and Jr.įrom steeple to stable to goal posts to dinner table, new paperback offers homily on southern religiosity ![]()
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