| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Randy J. Sparks. Religion in Mississippi. (Heritage of Mississippi Series, number 2.) Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, for the Mississippi Historical Society, Jackson. 2001. Pp. xiv, 374. $40.00.

Historical generalizations always fall short of accuracy and usually turn out to be unfair. Even so, the state of Mississippi seems to keep on inviting such treatment. This study of the history of the religious life of its people convincingly demonstrates the necessity of letting the evidence speak for itself. 1

Randy J. Sparks, native, member of a long-resident family, and veteran student of religion in the Magnolia State, calls attention to the vagaries of this phenomenon. To cite a few instances: in addition to its situation on the old Southwest frontier, the state bestrides boundaries and borders. Its beginnings suggested that the population would be Roman Catholic, which turned out to be far from true. Mississippi has always differed from the Deep South states to the east and from the adjacent southwestern states of Louisiana and Arkansas. Surprises abound, and diversity is greater than most are willing to grasp. Even so, the evangelical Protestantism that dominates the South generally is pervasive here too, within both European and African-American populations. . . .

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