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Religion

Vol. 32, No. 3.  //  fall 2026

Although many see the South as a Protestant “Bible Belt,” it has always been home to a wide array of religions—what religious studies scholar Thomas Tweed defines as “confluences of organic-cultural flows that intensify joy and confront suffering by drawing on human and suprahuman forces to make homes and cross boundaries.” Guest edited by Shari Rabin (Oberlin College).

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A Messy Category

Religion in the US South

by Shari Rabin
In his recent magnum opus, Religion in the Lands that Became America, religious studies scholar Thomas Tweed locates the earliest evidence of religious practice in the Americas at the Horn Shelter burial site, not far from present-day Waco, Texas. More than eleven thousand years ago, a man and a girl were buried, on their sides, »
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