Religion in the American South emerged as part of a globalized,
transnational movement of peoples from the seventeenth through the
nineteenth centuries. Ironically, it then came to be seen as the
most localized, provincial kind of religion in America, one
famously hostile to outside ideas, influences, and agitators. Yet
southern religious expressions, particularly in music, have
exercised enormous intellectual and cultural influence. Despite
southern religion's provincialism during the era of evangelical
dominance and racial proscriptions, the kinds of expressions coming
from the American South have been influential across the globe.
With this book Paul Harvey takes up the theme of southern religion
in global contexts through a series of biographical vignettes that
illustrate its outreach. In the first segment he focuses on Frank
Price, the Presbyterian missionary to China and advisor to Chiang
Kai-Shek. In the second he focuses on Howard Thurman, the mystic,
cosmopolitan, preacher, intellectual, poet, hymnist, and mentor for
the American civil rights movement. In the third he looks to the
musical figures of Rosetta Tharpe, Johnny Cash, and Levon Helm,
whose backbeat, harmonies, and religious enthusiasms contributed to
much of the soundtrack of the world through the second half of the
twentieth century.
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