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Author Blanton, Anderson

Title Hittin the prayer bones : materialities of spirit in the pentecostal south / Anderson Blanton
Edition 1 [edition]
Published Chapel Hill NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2015

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Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Radio as "Point of Contact": Prayer and the Prosthesis of the Holy Ghost; Interlude: SERMON 1 Sister Julie's Preachin'; CHAPTER 2 Prayer Cloths: Remnants of the Holy Ghost and the Texture of Faith; Interlude: SERMON 2 Sister June's Bulldog Preachin'; CHAPTER 3 Preaching: The Anointed Poetics of Breath; Interlude: SERMON 3 The Breath of Brother Pearl-"Are You Ready?"; CHAPTER 4 Standin' in the Gap: The Materialities of Prayer; Altar Call: If You Ain't Blas-ah-phemed the Holy Ghost; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I
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Summary In this work, Anderson Blanton illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southern Appalachia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pentecostalism -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Material culture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Christianity and culture -- Appalachian Region, Southern
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Material culture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Christianity and culture
Pentecostalism
SUBJECT Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religious life and customs
Subject Southern Appalachian Region
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469623993
1469623994