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Article: Religion in the Contemporary South: Diversity, Community, and Identity
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- Journal of American Culture
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- July 1, 1996
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Religion in the Contemporary South: Diversity, Community, and Identity. O. Kendall White, Jr. and Daryl White, eds. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1995. $20.00 paper; $30.00 cloth.
In 1941, the sociologist W. J. Cash published a classic interpretation of the South entitled The Mind of the South. This 1995 publication, edited by the sociologist Kendall and the anthropologist Daryl White, could well be titled The Soul of the South. Nonetheless, the South of which Cash spoke and of which the White's anthology speaks is a very different South indeed. The rural, pastoral South has undergone a transformation of urbanization and industrialization. Even more significantly, the ...