LEADER 04117nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910461099103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-49171-X 010 $a9786613586940 010 $a0-8203-4374-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000160116 035 $a(OCoLC)781636648 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10539275 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000691631 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11942961 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000691631 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10646423 035 $a(PQKB)10822560 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039087 035 $a(OCoLC)794364759 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15921 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4977945 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039087 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539275 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4977945 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358694 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000160116 100 $a20110721d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMoses, Jesus, and the trickster in the evangelical South$b[electronic resource] /$fPaul Harvey 210 $aAthens $cUniversity of Georgia Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (198 p.) 225 1 $aMercer University Lamar memorial lectures ;$vno. 52 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8203-4592-X 311 $a0-8203-3411-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Illustrations and Endnotes -- INTRODUCTION. What Is the Soul of Man? -- CHAPTER ONE. Moses, Jesus, Absalom, and the Trickster: Narratives of the Evangelical South -- CHAPTER TWO. "'Because I Was a Master'": Religion, Race, and Southern Ideas of Freedom -- CHAPTER THREE. Suffering Saint: Jesus in the South -- Notes -- Index. 330 $aPaul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race, and southern history.The figure of Moses helps us better understand how whites saw themselves as a chosen people in situations of suffering and war and how Africans and African Americans reworked certain stories in the Bible to suit their own purposes. By applying the figure of Jesus to the central concerns of life, Harvey argues, southern evangelicals were instrumental in turning him into an American figure. The ghostly presence of the Trickster, hovering at the edges of the sacred world, sheds light on the Euro-American and African American folk religions that existed alongside Christianity. Finally, Harvey explores twentieth-century renderings of the biblical story of Absalom in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom and in works from Toni Morrison and Edward P. Jones.Harvey uses not only biblical and religious sources but also draws on literature, mythology, and art. He ponders the troubling meaning of "religious freedom" for slaves and later for blacks in the segregated South. Through his cast of four central characters, Harvey reveals diverse facets of the southern religious experience, including conceptions of ambiguity, darkness, evil, and death. 410 0$aMercer University Lamar memorial lectures ;$vno. 52. 606 $aEvangelicalism$zSouthern States$xHistory 606 $aChristianity and culture$zSouthern States$xHistory 606 $aRace relations$xReligious aspects$xProtestant churches$xHistory 606 $aTricksters$zSouthern States 607 $aSouthern States$xChurch history 607 $aSouthern States$xRace relations$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEvangelicalism$xHistory. 615 0$aChristianity and culture$xHistory. 615 0$aRace relations$xReligious aspects$xProtestant churches$xHistory. 615 0$aTricksters 676 $a280/.40975 700 $aHarvey$b Paul$f1961-$01028288 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461099103321 996 $aMoses, Jesus, and the trickster in the evangelical South$92479691 997 $aUNINA