Tabla de Contenidos: “…Percy and the public health of New Orleans Environs -- The spectacle between piety and desire: New Orleans Black Panther Party and Ishamel Reed's neo-hoodooism -- The vampires' middle passage: the world of Anne Rice and the promise of New Orleans's coast -- Mapping the spirit region: Sister Helen, the Dead Men, and the folk of New Orleans environs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 7: Mapping the Spirit Region: Sister Helen, the Dead Men, and the Folk of New Orleans's EnvironsChapter 8: Epilogue; Chapter 9: Notes; Chapter 10: Bibliography; Index…”

“…In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. …”