Preface
Introduction: the faith and the faiths / Bill J. Leonard
Legends of the fall: contesting economic history / Barbara Ellen Smith
The church and the family farm ministry in central Appalachia / Bennett Poage
Popular religiosity in central Appalachia / Charles Lippy
Uneven ground: cultural values, moral standards, and religiosity in the heart of Appalachia / Janet Boggess Welch
The church college in central Appalachia / Ira Read
Mountain religion: an overview / Loyal Jones
Mountain holiness / Deborah Vansau McCauley
Old-time Baptists of central Appalachia / Howard Dorgan
Serpent handlers: when the sacrament comes alive / Mary Lee Daugherty
Mountain preachers, mountain ministers / Gary Farley and Bill J. Leonard
The Commission on religion in Appalachia: empowering the people / James Sessions
Southern Baptists / Bill J. Leonard
The Presbyterians in central Appalachia / H. Davis Yeuell and Marcia Clark Myers
Mountaineers are always free: the Stone-Campbell traditions / Anthony Dunnavant
Wesleyan/Holiness churches / Melvin E. Dieter
Holiness in the highlands: a profile of the Church of God / Donald N. Bowdle
Catholic missions and evangelization / Lou F. McNeil
A baptism by immersion in Big Stone Gap: from south side Chicago to southern Appalachia / introduction by Helen Lewis ; text by Monica Kelly Appleby
The virtue of hope / Samuel S. Hill.