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Charles Reagan Wilson Charles Reagan Wilson Charles Reagan Wilson is the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. A professor of history and Southern studies, he earned his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Texas in El Paso and his Ph.D. at the University of Texas in Austin. His books on Southern religious and cultural history include Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis (1995) and Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1868-1920 (1980). In addition, he edited The New Regionalism (1997) and Religion in the South (1985), and co-edited Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (1989) and Religion and the American Civil War (1998). (Article first posted February 2002)

Publications

Nonfiction:

• Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1868-1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.
• Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1995.

Other Books:

• Religion in the South: Essays. Papers presented at the Porter L. Fortune Chancellor's Symposium on Southern History at the University of Mississippi, 3-5 October 1984. Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985.
• Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
• Mississippi, the State. Photographs by Clyde H. Smith, text by Charles Reagan Wilson. Little Compton, Rhode Island: Fort Church Publishers, 1991.
• Religion.. Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1991.
• Smile Pretty and Say Jesus: The Last Great Days of PTL. By Hunter James, foreword by Charles Reagan Wilson. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.
• Picturing The South: 1860 to the Present: Photographers and Writers. Exhibition held at the High Museum of Art, Folk Art and Photography Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia, June 15-September 14, 1996. Edited by Ellen Dugan, essay by Charles Reagan Wilson. Atlanta, Ga.: High Museum of Art; San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996.
• Religion and the American Civil War. Edited by Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• The New Regionalism: Essays and Commentaries. Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.
• The South and the Caribbean: Essays and Commentaries. Papers from the 22nd Annual Chancellor Porter L. Fortune, Jr., Symposium on Southern History, held in Oxford, Mississippi in October 1996. Edited by Douglass Sullivan-González and Charles Reagan Wilson. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.

 

Bibliography:

Internet Resources

• The Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The University of Mississippi.

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