Can Somebody Shout Amen! Inside the Tents and Tabernacles of American Revivalists
(Part of the Religion in the South Series)
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" Award-winning journalist Patsy Sims journeyed through the back roads of the South, along the sawdust trail, to take part in the lives of seven American revivalists, their families, crew members, and followers. She attended services conducted by Pentecostal evangelists, with audiences ranging from almost fifty to five thousand. Before, after, and in between she conducted hundred of interviews. What she discovered is a fascinating world dominated by colorful, compelling, unorthodox men who sprang out of a tradition that dates back almost two hundred years. With descriptive, evocative prose, Sims allows readers to vicariously experience old-time religion: a revivalist attempting to raise his son from the dead, a week with an east Tennessee congregation of snakehandlers, the opening-night jitters of a beginning evangelist, and the loneliness of the road for the veterans. Sims's rendering of what goes on in the tents and tabernacles of America allows the people and events to speak for themselves.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813108861
ISBN13:9780813108865
Release Date:August 1996
Publisher:University Press of Kentucky
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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