Hittin' The Prayer Bones: Materiality Of Spirit In The Pentecostal South

The author examines how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southern Appalachia. From the radios used to broadcast prayer to the curative faith cloths circulated through the postal system, material objects known as spirit-matter have become essential since the 1940s to the Pentecostal community's understanding and performances of faith.--Publisher's Description.

• • Author: Anderson Blanton
• • Publisher: The University Of North Carolina Press
• • Publication Date: Oct 12, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 236 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1469623978
• • ISBN-13: 9781469623979