Monday, June 02, 2008

A book co-edited by Walter Conser Jr., a professor of religious studies and history at University of North Carolina Wilmington, has been released by The University Press of Kentucky.

Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture, an interdisciplinary study by Conser and Rodger M. Payne, dissects the intricacies of Southern religion and the interplay of religion and culture in daily life. The book takes religion beyond Christianity and churches and into topics such as food, music, art, vernacular folkways and literature. Contributors include UNCW scholars Will D. Moore, history, and Diana Pasulka, philosophy and religion.

Conser has penned several books, including God and the Natural World: Religion and Science in Antebellum America. A Coat of Many Colors, his 2006 study of religion and society in the Lower Cape Fear region, won the Ethel W. Twiford Religious History Book Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians.