Foxfire 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

Anchor Books/Doubleday. New in New dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385152434 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in new condition. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "The Foxfire series of of books were oral histories transcribed by high school students who interviewed older people living in the Appalachian area of north Georgia and southern North Carolina in the 1970s and 1980s. They captured a cross section of traditional 20th century American history at the very moment it was being snuffed out by the overwhelming force of postmodern urbanism. Book seven is a comprehensive history of the churches and church leaders of the area. Since most of the religious people are of Scots-Irish ethnicity so are the religions. There is no Hegelian dialectic nor other sophistry. There is no politically correct pandering to non indigenous religions for the sake of specious 'inclusiveness'. This is a discussion of the area's religion before our culture got like it is today. There are interviews with numerous well educated and well spoken members of traditional religions. These persons are from numerous sects, denominations, belief systems. So the net result is to expound on the zenith of the Judeo-Christian heritage of the region. And no, even though the writers and the oral historians are from 'flyover country' that heritage is not that of a bunch of backwards hillbillies."; Foxfire Series; 8.6 X 5.7 X 1.3 inches; 510 pages .