PAUL HARVEY is a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Freedom’s Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era and Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical South (Georgia).

Harvey picks grand narratives of American religious history, including its emphasis on freedom, its focus on evangelicalism, and its obsessions with Jesus, runs them through the mill of southern history, literature, and folklore, and produces so many new intellectual morsels that it will take scholars a decade to digest them all. Bravo to such a brave and delicious book.

PAUL HARVEY is a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Freedom’s Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era and Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical South (Georgia).

Harvey picks grand narratives of American religious history, including its emphasis on freedom, its focus on evangelicalism, and its obsessions with Jesus, runs them through the mill of southern history, literature, and folklore, and produces so many new intellectual morsels that it will take scholars a decade to digest them all. Bravo to such a brave and delicious book.

PAUL HARVEY is a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Freedom’s Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era and Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical South (Georgia).

Harvey picks grand narratives of American religious history, including its emphasis on freedom, its focus on evangelicalism, and its obsessions with Jesus, runs them through the mill of southern history, literature, and folklore, and produces so many new intellectual morsels that it will take scholars a decade to digest them all. Bravo to such a brave and delicious book.