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

by Patsy Sims

Book Overview

" 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813108861
• ISBN13: 9780813108865
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher