God's Peculiar People: Women's Voices & Folk Tradition in a Pentecostal Church

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University Press of Kentucky, 1988 - Religion - 159 pages
'Holy rollers'--with this epithet most people dismiss members of the Pentecostal sect as wild religious fanatics. In this new study folklorist Elaine Lawless draws on fieldwork among Pentecostal congregations in the limestone region of southern Indiana to offer a sympathetic view of the Pentecostals as a special group distinguished by their own fold traditions and religions expression.

Contents

Introduction
1
The Field Situation
10
Maintaining Boundaries
35
Discourse Rules
55
Power of the Word
77
Conclusion
110
Notes
126
Bibliography
134
Index
155
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