About the Author

Anderson Blanton is a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany.

Reviews

A provocative and exciting ethnographic contribution to the broader fields of American religion, Pentecostalism, and southern studies. . . . A rewarding book, indispensable for scholars of Pentecostalism and religion in the American South.--Journal of Southern History

Accessible and stimulating. . . . A multilayered, challenging, and insightful articulation of the materialization of the Pentecostal faith.--Journal of American Folklore

Blanton's ethnography of charismatic Christianity in Appalachia has a distinctly musical quality.... This is really not a book one simply reads; it is a book to experience.--AnthroCyBib