Suggestions for Further Reading:

Appalachian Regional Religion


Abell, Troy D. Better Felt Than Said: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in Southern Appalachia. Waco, TX: Markham Press, 1982.

Burton, Thomas G. Serpent-Handling Believers. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.

Campbell, John C. The Southern Highlander and His Homeland. 1921. Reprint. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1969.

Crissman, James K. Death and Dying in Central Appalachia: Changing Attitudes and Practices. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Cunningham, Rodger. Apples on the Flood: The Southern Mountain Experience. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.

Dickinson, Eleanor, and Benziger, Barbara. Revival! New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

Dorgan, Howard. The Airwaves of Zion: Radio and Religion in Appalachia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.

_____. Giving Glory to God in Appalachia: Worship Practices of Six Baptist Subdenominations. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.

_____. In the Hands of a Happy God: The "No-Hellers" of Central Appalachia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.

_____. The Old Regular Baptists of Central Appalachia: Brothers and Sisters in Hope. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.

Gillespie, Paul F., ed. Foxfire 7. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1982.

Hooker, Elizabeth R. Religion in the Highlands. New York: Home Missions Council, 1933.

Kimbrough, David L. Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

McCauley, Deborah Vansau. Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Miles, Emma Bell. The Spirit of the Mountains. 1905. Reprint. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1975.

Montell, William Lynwood. Ghosts along the Cumberland: Deathlore in the Kentucky Foothills. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1975.

Peacock, James L., and Tyson, Ruel W., Jr. Pilgrims of Paradox: Calvinism and Experience among the Primitive Baptists of the Blue Ridge. Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Photiadis, John D., ed. Religion in Appalachia: Theological, Social, and Psychological Dimensions and Correlates. Morgantown: West Virginia University, Center for Extension and Continuing Education, 1978.

Titon, Jeff Todd. Powerhouse for God: Speech, Chant, and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988.

Weller, Jack E. Yesterday's People: Life in Contemporary Appalachia. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965.

Wigginton, Eliot, ed. The Foxfire Book. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1972.

_____. Foxfire 2. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1973.