Can Somebody Shout Amen!: Inside the Tents and Tabernacles of American Revivalists - Brossura

Sims, Patsy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0813108861 ISBN 13: 9780813108865

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Kentucky, 1996

Riassunto

" 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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Patsy Sims is associate professor and coordinator of the Creative Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.

Product Description:

Book by Sims Patsy

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Kentucky
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0813108861
• ISBN 13: 9780813108865
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 234