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Informationen zum Autor Michael Pasquier is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. He is author of Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870 and co-editor of the Journal of Southern Religion . Klappentext Michael Pasquier is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. He is author of Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870 and co-editor of the Journal of Southern Religion. Zusammenfassung Contributes to a richer understanding of this diverse, dynamic, and fluid religious world Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword \ Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein Acknowledgments Introduction: Religious Life on the Mississippi \ Michael Pasquier 1. "The Singing of the Mississippi": The River and Religions of the Black Atlantic \ Jon F. Sensbach 2. Religion and American Empire in Mississippi, 1790-1833 \ Sylvester Johnson 3. Movement, Maps, and Wonder: Civil Religious Competition at the Source of the Mississippi River, 1805-1832 \ Arthur Remillard 4. Looking for the New Jerusalem: Antebellum New Religious Movements and the Mississippi River \ Thomas Ruys Smith 5. "Go Down into Jordan: No, Mississippi": Mormon Nauvoo and the Rhetoric of Landscape \ Seth Perry 6. The Mississippi River and the Transformation of Black Religion in the Delta, 1877-1915 \ John M. Giggie 7. The Redemption of Souls and Soils: Religion and the Rural Crisis in the Delta \ Alison Collis Greene 8. Bonfires on the Levee: Place, Memory, and the Sacred in River Road Catholicism \ Justin D. Poché 9. "Big River": Johnny Cash and the Currents of History \ John Hayes Afterword: "No Home Like a Raft": Repositioning the Narratives of U.S. Religious History \ Thomas A. Tweed Contributors Index ...
