Description:
Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture takes the study of southern religion beyond a narrow focus on Christianity and churches. The interdisciplinary research found in this volume extends to non-Western religions and even to such topics as food, music, art, vernacular folkways, and literature. Contributors include Walter H. Conser Jr., James R. Curtis, Matthew Day, Marcie Cohen Ferris, Paul Harvey, Samuel S. Hill, Barbara Lau, Bill J. Leonard, William Martin, Donald G. Mathews, William D. Moore, Charles E. Orser Jr., Diana Pasulka, Celeste Ray, Randall J. Stephens, and Charles Reagan Wilson.
Brief description: Rodger M. Payne is associate professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and is editor of the Journal of Southern Religion. He is the author of The Self and the Sacred: Conversion and Autobiography in Early American Protestantism.
Review Quotes:
"Southern Crossroads will overturn old ideas that southern religion is, above everything else, emotional and anti-intellectual and apart from and opposed to the direction of the modern world. . . . It is exciting to see so much good scholarship on southern religious life, past and present."--Ted M. Ownby, author of Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920
--Ted M. Ownby