Christianity in Appalachia
Subtitle: profiles in regional pluralism
By: edited by Bill J. Leonard.
Contributors: Leonard, Bill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Christianity -- Appalachian Region.; Appalachian Region -- Religious life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction: the faith and the faiths / Bill J. Leonard; title: Legends of the fall: contesting economic history / Barbara Ellen Smith; title: The church and the family farm ministry in central Appalachia / Bennett Poage; title: Popular religiosity in central Appalachia / Charles Lippy; title: Uneven ground: cultural values, moral standards, and religiosity in the heart of Appalachia / Janet Boggess Welch; title: The church college in central Appalachia / Ira Read; title: Mountain religion: an overview / Loyal Jones; title: Mountain holiness / Deborah Vansau McCauley; title: Old-time Baptists of central Appalachia / Howard Dorgan; title: Serpent handlers: when the sacrament comes alive / Mary Lee Daugherty; title: Mountain preachers, mountain ministers / Gary Farley and Bill J. Leonard; title: The Commission on religion in Appalachia: empowering the people / James Sessions; title: Southern Baptists / Bill J. Leonard; title: The Presbyterians in central Appalachia / H. Davis Yeuell and Marcia Clark Myers; title: Mountaineers are always free: the Stone-Campbell traditions / Anthony Dunnavant; title: Wesleyan/Holiness churches / Melvin E. Dieter; title: Holiness in the highlands: a profile of the Church of God / Donald N. Bowdle; title: Catholic missions and evangelization / Lou F. McNeil; title: A baptism by immersion in Big Stone Gap: from south side Chicago to southern Appalachia / introduction by Helen Lewis ; text by Monica Kelly Appleby; title: The virtue of hope / Samuel S. Hill.