Foxfire 7 Ministers and Church Members, Revivals and Baptisms, Shaped-Note and Gospel Singing, Faith Healing and Camp Meetings, Foot Washing, Snake Handling

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• ISBN13: 9780385152440
• ISBN10: 0385152442
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1982-03-01
• Publisher: Anchor

Summary

The seventhFoxfirevolume presents traditions of mountain religious heritage, covering ministers, revivals, baptisms, gospel-singing, faith healing, camp meetings, snake handling, and more.

Author Biography

Founded in 1966, FOXFIRE is a nonprofit education organization. Foxfire's learner-centered, community-based approach is advocated through The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center and grounded in the Southern Appalachian culture that promotes a sense of place and appreciation of local people and culture as essential educational tools.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Historical Overview	p. 13
Religious Denominations	p. 28
Baptists	p. 28
Ben Cook, Southern Baptist
Bly Owens, Southern Baptist
Joe Bishop, Southern Baptist
Howard Southards, Independent Baptist
Howard Parham, Primitive Baptist
Lystra Primitive Baptist Church
Clyde Nations, Jr., Ted Laney and Clyde Nations, Sr., Free Will Baptists
Selma Mosely, Black Baptist
Beulah Perry, Black Baptist
Catholics	p. 104
Lina Davis, Roman Catholic
Church of Christ	p. 110
Wayne Rawlings, Church of Christ
Episcopalians	p. 118
Rufus Morgan, Episcopalian
Jehovah's Witnesses	p. 139
Ernest Clark, Ruth Stockton and Reppie Jones, Jehovah's Witnesses
Methodists	p. 170
E. L. Adams, Methodist
Julie Mcclure, Methodist
Conley Henry, Methodist
Leonard Vissage, Methodist
E. C. Presley, Methodist
Pentecostals	p. 198
Ray Dryman, Church of God
Toliver Vinson, Church of God
Granny Reed, Church of God
Jake Quilliams, Church of God
Charles Lee, Fire Baptized Holiness Church
Presbyterians	p. 233
L. B. Gibbs, Presbyterian
Clyde Hicks, Presbyterian
Sid Mccarty, Presbyterian
The Camp Meeting	p. 265
Loudsville Methodist Campground	p. 267
Cullasaja Assembly of God Campmeeting and Campground	p. 274
The Tradition of Shaped-Note Music	p. 280
Singers of Shaped-Note Music	p. 293
Christian Harmony, Richard Moss Christian Harmony, Quay Smathers
"I Love to Sing..."	p. 299
Gospel Shaped Note Music	p. 304
Jim Raby, Henry Fountain, Aunt Addie Norton, Lonnie Smith, Horage Page, Hyman Brown, Esco Pitts, Ernest Watts, Ferd Watts and Wilbur Maney
Baptism	p. 347
Foot Washing	p. 351
The People Who Take Up Serpents	p. 370
A Church of God	p. 372
Dinner on the Grounds	p. 421
Sunday Night	p. 423
Appendix	p. 429
Notes	p. 484
Glossary	p. 488
Editorial Contributors	p. 491
Index	p. 497
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