(rough) Thesis... Help please (intro comming soon)

Considering that religious iconography symbolically represents abstract ideals in visually stimulating renderings, Christian sponsored artistic depictions of  Jesus seek to communicate to Christians their various theories on life, gender roles, and societal construction. Because Protestant Christianity is particularly hegemonic in the antebellum South, a southerner's conception of Jesus, (how he looks, his mannerisms etc...) Christianity's most preeminent figure, will likely influence and even predicate how they will inter-react and navigate the world around them. After examining Protestant theologies especially prevalent in the South, inspecting the many varied popular in the South and the traditions they arise from, and surveying the many constructions that undergird Southern society, this essay shall contend that a causal link exists between the artistic depiction of Christ, the conceptualization of Christ, and cultural expectations as seen in racial supremacy, masculinity, gender roles, and sexuality.