TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harvey,Paul
TI  - Moses, Jesus, and the trickster in the evangelical South
T2  - Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures
SN  - 9780820343747
AV  - BR535 .H385 2012eb
U1  - 280/.40975 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Athens
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - Evangelicalism
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Protestant churches
KW  - Tricksters
KW  - Évangélisme
KW  - États-Unis (Sud)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Christianisme et civilisation
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Églises protestantes
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Protestant
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sociology of Religion
KW  - fast
KW  - Church history
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : what is the soul of man? -- Moses, Jesus, Absalom, and the trickster : narratives of the evangelical South -- "Because i was a master" : religion, race and southern ideas of freedom -- Suffering saint : Jesus in the South
N2  - Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race, and southern history. The figure of Moses helps us better understand how whites saw themselves as a chosen people in situations of suffering and war and how Africans and African Americans reworked certain stories in the Bible to suit their own purposes. By applying the figure of Jesus to the central concerns of life, Harvey argues, southern evangelicals were instrumental in turning him into an American figure. The ghostly presence of the Trickster, hovering at the edges of the sacred world, sheds light on the Euro-American and African American folk religions that existed alongside Christianity. Finally, Harvey explores twentieth-century renderings of the biblical story of Absalom in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom and in works from Toni Morrison and Edward P. Jones
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