Fredrik Sunnemark. Ring Out Freedom!: The Voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement. JAMES H. CONE

David Filingim. Redneck Liberation: Country Music as Theology. STEVEN P. MILLER

Rufus Spain. At Ease in Zion: A Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865-1900. BARRY HANKINS

Mary Stanton. Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust. LYNN S. NEAL

David Goldfield. Southern Histories: Public, Personal, and Sacred. ELNA C. GREEN

Mark Newman. Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi. SAID SEWELL

Dena J. Epstein. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War. WILLIAM E. MONTGOMERY

Raymond R. Sommerville. An Ex-Colored Church: Social Activism in the CME Church, 1870-1970. LEWIS V. BALDWIN

Celeste Ray and Luke Eric Lassiter, eds. Signifying Serpents and Mardi Gras Runners: Representing Identity in Selected Souths. ALBERTO LOPEZ PULIDO

John Patrick Daly. When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War. CHARLES F. IRONS

John B. Boles, ed. Autobiographical Reflections on Southern Religious History. FRED HOBSON

Holly Everett. Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture. CLAYTON L. MCNEARNEY

Phil Zuckerman, ed. Du Bois on Religion. MARK NEWMAN

Peter J. Ling. Martin Luther King, Jr. STEPHEN ANGELL

James R. Goff, Jr. Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel. STEPHEN A. MARINI

W. Scott Poole. Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservativism in the South Carolina Upcountry. MICHAEL PASQUIER

Film Review

Charles Burnett, director/writer. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property. MAXINE D. JONES

Music Review

The Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture. Children of the Heav'nly King: Religious Expression in the Central Blue Ridge. WILLIAM D. ISAACS III