Is there a Southern religion?  What is the relationship
between “Southern” religion and “American” religion?  Exactly what
is Southern identity?  This course employs new theoretical
approaches to examine the cultural history of religion in what has
come to be known as the American South.  The course will cover
Spanish, French, English, Native American, and African religious
backgrounds from colonial times to the twenty-first century “New
South.”  Topics include intercultural and interracial histories,
civil religion, Confederate revivalism, and important theological
trends.  Readings will problematize oppositional constructions of
Southern and Northern identity.  Incorporates theories of race and
sexuality, nationalism, regionalism, and historiographical methods.
Students will write brief essays as paper assignments.