Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History

This book is a genuine breakthrough in understanding both the type of protestant religion intrinsic to the Appalachian area and the origin of that peculiar type of religion.

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Mountain Religious Life, Mountain Religious History: Redolence and Beginnings	p. 45
Brother Callaway of Avery County	p. 49
Emma Bell Miles and "The Old-time Religion"	p. 80
The New Salem Association of Old Regular Baptists, org. 1825	p. 90
"We Believed in the Family and the Old Regular Baptist Church"	p. 101
Baptists, Methodists, and the Radical Decline of Religious Experience, 1825-27	p. 113
Old Father Nash and Charles Grandison Finney: A Parting of the Ways, 1825-27	p. 126
Roots of Mountain Religiosity	p. 143
Mountain Religion and Denominationalism: Campbell, Hooker, and Albanese	p. 147
Pietism, Pietists, and Holiness People	p. 156
Scots-Irish Religiosity and Revivalism	p. 168
The Baptist Revival and the Power of Self-Definition	p. 201
Methodism in Appalachia: A Clash of Religious Values	p. 238
The Independent Holiness Church	p. 255
Mountain Religion and the Holiness-Pentecostal Movements	p. 259
How an Independent Holiness Church Became a Major Denomination	p. 276
Brother Coy Miser	p. 311
The Home Mission to "Mountain Whites"	p. 339
"Mr. Schermerhorn's Statement"	p. 345
"In the Brush"	p. 371
A Christian America and the Appalachian "Problem"	p. 392
Elizabeth Hooker and Brother Terry Galloway: On the Same Side of the Mountain	p. 417
Appalachia's "Victims" and Their "Liberators" Today	p. 442
Afterword: As the Pieces Begin to Fall into Place	p. 465
Essay on Sources	p. 469
Notes	p. 479
Works Cited	p. 509
Index	p. 525
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