A Roman Catholic at home in the fundamentalist South -- The burden of southern history and the presence of eternity within time -- The problem of the color line: race and religion in Flannery O'Connor's South -- The South as a mannered and mysteriously redemptive region -- Preaching as the Southern Protestant sacrament -- Demonic nihilism: the chief moral temptation of modernity -- Vocation: the divine summons to drastic witness -- Climbing into the starry field and shouting hallelujah: Flannery O'Connor's vision of the world to come.
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