Can Somebody Shout Amen! : Inside the Tents and Tabernacles of American Revivalists Paperback / softback
by Patsy Sims
Part of the Religion in the South series
Paperback / softback
Description
" 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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:The University Press of Kentucky
- Publication Date:08/08/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780813108865
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:The University Press of Kentucky
- Publication Date:08/08/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780813108865
