Appalachian Mountain Religion - 9780252064142

Appalachian Mountain ReligionA HISTORY\nAuthor(s): Deborah McCauley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252064142, 978-0252064142\nSynopsis\n\""A monumental achievement. . . . Certainly the best thing written on Appalachian Religion and one of the best works on the region itself. Deborah McCauley has made a winning argument that Appalachian religion is a true and authentic counter-stream to modern mainstream Protestant religion.\"" -- Loyal Jones, founding director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College\n\nAppalachian Mountain Religion is much more than a narrowly focused look at the religion of a region. Within this largest regional and widely diverse religious tradition can be found the strings that tie it to allof American religious history. The fierce drama between American Protestantism and Appalachian mountain religion has been played out for nearly two hundred years; the struggle betw.