Editors' Note

With this issue, the Journal of Southern Religion reappears after a two-year hiatus. The past few years have had a number of headwinds that interrupted the publication of the journal. We, however, never lost sight of publishing material on understanding religion in the American South.

As we watch other online journals and magazines copy our format online format, the structure of JSR—online version of what functions as a print journal—poses some problems. Another issue is that even if we had published the articles below as they arrived, we would have had content of a single article or two per year. Book reviews in the aftermath of the pandemic have become harder to solicit. In the coming months, we will have a conversation about what JSR could look like moving forward and those willing to join us on the journey. As the articles in this issue indicate, there is plenty still left for us to do.

The four articles below engage in critical reflection on the ways that 19th and 20th century southerners made sense of their worlds through religious expression. There is no central theme to this issue, but each article plumbs the deep recesses of archival material and pushes the boundaries of what we mean when we think about religion in the American South.