Available June 2005

Southern History

900 pages, 7 x 10

978-0-86554-758-2

$60.00t, Cloth

Illustrations, index

MUP/H570

Second Edition: Revised, Expanded, Updated

Edited by Samuel S. Hill and Charles H. Lippy with Charles Reagan Wilson, consulting editor

This is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the South, religion, or cultural history.
The publication of the Encyclopedia of Religion in the South in 1984 signaled the rise in the scholarly interest in the study of religion in the South. Religion has always been part of the cultural heritage of that region, but scholarly investigation had been sporadic. Since the original publication of the ERS, however, the South has changed significantly in that Christianity is no longer the primary religion observed. Other religions like Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism have begun to have very important voices in Southern life. This one-volume reference, the only one of its kind, takes this expansion into consideration by updating older relevant articles and by adding new ones.

After more than twenty years, the only reference book in the field of religion in the South has been totally revised and updated. Each article has been updated and the bibliography has been expanded. The ERS has also been expanded to include more than sixty new articles on religion in the South. New articles have been added on such topics as Elvis Presley, Appalachian music, Buddhism, Bill Clinton, Jerry Falwell, Fannie Lou Hamer, Zora Neale Hurston, Stonewall Jackson, popular religion, Pat Robertson, the PTL, sports and religion in the South, theme parks, and much more.

Samuel S. Hill retired in 1994 after thirty-four years of teaching in Religion at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the University of Florida with special interest in Religion in the South. He now lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

Charles H. Lippy (Ph.D., Princeton) has been the LeRoy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga since 1994. He is author of numerous books on American religious culture, including the Bibliography of Religion in the South (Mercer University Press, 1985) and Do Real Men Pray? Images of the Christian Man and Male Spirituality in White Protestant America (University of Tennessee Press, 2005).

Charles Reagan Wilson is a professor of History and Southern studies and the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

Titles of Related Interest

The Stem of Jesse: The Costs of Community at a 1960s Southern School

Damned Souls in a Tobacco Colony: Religion

Southern Civil Religions in Conflict: Civil Rights and the Culture Wars

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