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 splintery wooden floors, primitive
Christian baptismal immersions in muddy creeks, Seventh-Day
Adventist foot-washings, Body of Christ blood-drinking communions,
Kingdom of God snakehandlings, Full Redeemer glossolalia services,
Fire Baptized Holiness street-corner rallies, Catholic mass at
midnight on Christmas Eve, the rituals of Jewish synagogues, and .
. . philosophical lectures in Unitarian churches."
Decades later, Caldwell drew on this fertile background when he
toured Georgia and neighboring states 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 point to what may be the true essence of southern
spirituality.
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