
Hittin' the Prayer Bones
Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
Anderson Blanton
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 07/2015
Pages: 236
Subject: Religion, Social Science
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469623986
DESCRIPTION
Hittin' the Prayer Bones draws on Blanton's extensive site visits with church congregations, radio preachers and their listeners inside and outside the broadcasting studios, and more than thirty years of recorded charismatic worship made available to him by a small Christian radio station. In documenting the transformation and consecration of everyday objects through performances of communal worship, healing prayer, and chanted preaching, Blanton frames his ethnographic research in the historiography of faith healing and prayer, as well as theoretical models of materiality and transcendence. At the same time, his work affectingly conveys the feelings of horror, healing, and humor that are unleashed in practitioners as they experience, in their own words, the sacred, healing presence of the Holy Ghost.