Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

The Foxfire Book Volume 7 Ministers, church members, revivals, baptisms, shaped-note and gospel singing, faith healing, camp meetings, footwashing, snake handling, and other traditions of mountain religious heritage Edited by Paul F. Gillespie - Garden City, NY Anchor Press 1982 - 510 p. - Foxfire Volume VII .

Includes Index

Introduction -- Historical overview -- Religious denominations. Baptists ; Catholics ; Church of Christ ; Episcopalians ; Jehovah's Witnesses ; Methodists ; Pentecostals ; Presbyterians -- The camp meeting -- The tradition of shaped-note music -- Baptism -- Foot washing -- The people who take up serpents.

The seventh Foxfire volume explores the traditions of mountain religious heritage--including ministers, revivals, baptisms, gospel-singing, faith healing, camp meetings, snake handling--and more.


Religion --Appalachians (People)
Christianity Appalachian Region, Southern
Religious life and customs Appalachian Region, Southern
Church history Appalachian Region, Southern



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