Deep South: Memory and Observation - Softcover

Caldwell, Erskine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820317160 ISBN 13: 9780820317168

Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Deep South Portraying a region steeped religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, "Deep South" is a product both of Erskine Caldwell the storyteller and Erskine Caldwell the minister's son.Reverend Ira Sylvester Caldwell's missionary work took him and his family deep into the region commonly referred to as the Bible Belt. His son, Erskine, was at his side on innumerable home visits with the elderly, sick, and poor of Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Virginia, and Florida. By the time the younger Caldwell left home at seventeen, he had also witnessed such varieties of religious experience as "Church of God all-night camp meetings, Holy Roller exhibitions on spl...

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Review:

Many of the episodic stories could easily stand on their own, but it is the collage of characters and southern religions which makes the book so vivid

--Religious Studies Review

A colorful, nostalgic account . . . Deep South is sharply observant and evokes a certain time with telling accuracy.

--Savannah News-Press

From the Back Cover:

Portraying a region steeped in religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, Deep South is a product both of Erskine Caldwell the storyteller and Erskine Caldwell the minister's son. Rev. Ira Sylvester Caldwell's missionary work took him and his family deep into the Bible Belt. By the time Erskine Caldwell left home at seventeen, he had witnessed such varieties of religious experience as all-night camp meetings, baptismal immersions in muddy creeks, snakehandlings, street-corner rallies, and midnight mass. Decades later, Caldwell drew on this fertile background when he toured the region in order to hear firsthand from ministers and churchgoers about how southern protestantism was faring amid the social upheaval of the mid-1960s. Deep South offers a rich mix of anecdotes, memories, interviews, and observations that points to what may he the true essence of southern spirituality.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0820317160
• ISBN 13: 9780820317168
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272