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Appalachian Mountain Relgion: A History
by Deborah McCauley
Short Description: "This book is a genuine breakthrough in understanding both the type of Protestant religion intrinsic to the Appalachian area and the origin of that peculiar type of religion." - Christian Standard
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Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands
by Loyal Jones
Short Description: "If you read one book to know about mountain religious life, what makes it special and unique on the American landscape, this is the one.- Deborah Vansau McCauley
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Giving Glory to God in Appalachia: Worship Practices of Six Baptist Subdenominations
by Howard Dorgan
Short Description: "A reliable compendium of doctrinal differences as well as interesting descriptions of their worship practices. This is the best book so far on the subject of Appalachian religion." - Loyal Jones
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Handling Serpents: Pastor Jimmy Morrow's Narrative History of His Appalachian Jesus' Name Tradition
by Jimmy Morrow
Short Description: This is an extraordinary acount of a unique form of religious devotion and dedication.
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Religion and Race: Southern Presbyterians, 1946-1983
by Joel Alvis, Jr.
Short Description: "Alvis tells an important story for all who are interested in religion in the South during the years surrounding the civil rights movement." - Erskine Clarke
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Religion in Antebellum Kentucky
by John Boles
Short Description: "An excellent survey of religion and its significance in the first eighty-five years of Kentucky's history." - Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
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Salvation on Sand Mountain : Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
by Dennis Covington
Short Description: A story of snake handling and strychnine drinking, of faith healing and speaking in tongues. It is also the story of one man's search for his roots--and, in the end, of his spiritual renewal.
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Serpent-Handling Believers
by Thomas Burton
Short Description: Serpent-Handling Believers is both a dramatic presentation and a thorough analytical insight into the serpent handlers' culture.
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Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky
by David Kimbrough
Short Description: This wonderfully-researched book is the most complete account of the people and churches that practice the handling of snakes in their worship of God.
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The Airwaves of Zion: Radio and Religion in Appalachia
by Howard Dorgan
Short Description: The Airwaves of Zion is Dorgan's first-person report on his own reactions to the pople and events he encountered during his years of research on Appalachain religious radio programs.
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The Roots of Appalachian Christianity: The Life and Legacy of Elder Shubal Stearns
by Elder John Sparks
Short Description: "Argues for the importance of the eighteenth-century traveling preacher in establishing Appalachian Christianity as a distinctive populist movement...Well-told." - Publishers Weekly
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The Serpent and the Spirit: Glen Summerford's Story
by Thomas Burton
Short Description: The story of snake handling preacher, Glenn Summerford, who is serving ninety-nine years for attempting to murder his wife, Darlene, by forcing her to be bitten by a rattlesnake.
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The Serpent Handlers: Three Families and Their Faith
by Fred Brown, Jeanne McDonald
Short Description: "These are touching stories of extreme passion and uncompromising commitment, stories of people willing to risk their lives to follow what they believe to be God's mandate." - Dr. Ralph Hood
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Toward Peacemaking: Presbyterians in the South and National Security, 1945-1983
by Rick Nutt
Short Description: "Explores the complex relationship of theological currents, cold war mentality, and the Civil Rights Movement to the evolving ethical thought of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S." -Charles Chatfield
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