Gods of the Mississippi

edited by Michael Pasquier, with contributions by Alison Collis Greene, Justin Poché, Thomas A. Tweed, Thomas Ruys Smith, Jon Sensbach, Arthur Remillard, Seth Perry, Sylvester A. Johnson, John Hayes, John Giggie

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.

Foreword Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. SteinAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Religious Life on the Mississippi Michael Pasquier1. "The Singing of the Mississippi": The River and Religions of the Black Atlantic Jon F. Sensbach2. Religion and American Empire in Mississippi, 1790-1833 Sylvester Johnson3. Movement, Maps, and Wonder: Civil Religious Competition at the Source of the Mississippi River, 1805-1832 Arthur Remillard4. Looking for the New Jerusalem: Antebellum New Religious Movements and the Mississippi River Thomas Ruys Smith5. "Go Down into Jordan: No, Mississippi": Mormon Nauvoo and the Rhetoric of Landscape Seth Perry6. The Mississippi River and the Transformation of Black Religion in the Delta, 1877-1915 John M. Giggie7. The Redemption of Souls and Soils: Religion and the Rural Crisis in the Delta Alison Collis Greene8. Bonfires on the Levee: Place, Memory, and the Sacred in River Road Catholicism Justin D. Poché9. "Big River": Johnny Cash and the Currents of History John HayesAfterword: "No Home Like a Raft": Repositioning the Narratives of U.S. Religious History Thomas A. TweedContributorsIndex