Books by Charles D. Thompson Jr.

Contains examples of communities with different experiences, expectations and evaluations of diaspora life. It contributes to debates about indigenous cultures and religions, and to understandings of identity and alterity in late or post-modernity. This book attempts to enrich understanding of indigenity, and of the globalized world.

A rousing tale of moonshine and conspiracy in Depression-era rural Virginia

Since arriving some years ago in Franklin County, Virginia, German Baptists have maintained their faith and farms by relying on their tightly knit community for spiritual and economic support. This work features a traditional community's struggle to define itself in the face of agricultural change.