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The Journal of Southern Religion is the first scholarly journal devoted to the study of religion in the American South. The journal is fully peer-reviewed, reflecting the best traditions of critical scholarship. It is an open-access publication, published free of cost in its entirety on the Internet. The JSR publishes articles and book reviews, as well as new media.

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Current Issue: Volume 13

Volume 13 of the Journal of Southern Religion features an article on Southern Baptists and the modern technology of indoor baptisteries and a roundtable discussion of class as a category of analysis in the study of religion in the twentieth-century South. A panel reviews Daniel K. Williams's God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right, and Monica Najar reflects on her book Evangelizing the South: A Social History of Church and State. Finally, this issue includes twenty-six reviews of recent books in the field.

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