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Swaggart : an unauthorized biography of an American evangelist
- Title
- Swaggart : an unauthorized biography of an American evangelist / Ann Rowe Seaman.
- Author
- Seaman, Ann Rowe.
- Publication
- New York : Continuum, ©1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | BV3785.S84 S43 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 438 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- This biography of Jimmy Swaggart relates his early hears in poverty as a sharecropper's son. Born around the same time are his famous cousins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley. This book also details the rise of Pentecostalism and its "evil twin" (Jacket), Rock and Roll.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Metairie, Louisiana, Fall 1987 -- Rebuke before All -- Frances -- In the Beginning -- Cloven Tongues Like As of Fire -- Ferriday -- Stars Are Born -- The Church That Darwin Built -- A Goodbye, and a New Bargain -- Another Goodbye -- Guilt -- Belonging -- Softening -- "Ninety-nine Cents out of Every Dollar" -- Texas Redux -- The First Surrender -- Taboo -- Revival -- The Theater of Salvation -- Defection -- The Blockbuster -- Rivals -- Last Chance -- Many Are Called -- Running from God -- The Anointing of Satan -- Narrow the Path -- Girls -- Into the Fire -- Seize the Moment -- Back in the Fold -- Out of Nothing -- By the Grace of God and Women -- Shakin' -- Awakening -- Miraculous Healing -- On the Road -- The Color Line -- Being Seen -- A String of Tragedies -- Keeping the Faith -- Just Do It! -- Demon Oppression -- A Good Man -- "What Hath God Wrought?" -- Camp Meeting Hour -- Voices -- "People Always Kill God" -- A Radio Station -- A Huge Burst out of a Shotgun -- "Don't Ever Let Me Get Like That" -- The Principality of the Powers of the Air -- The Mission of the Air -- Guarding the Temple -- Petra -- Brimstone -- A Son of the Reformation -- "I Don't Want This Thing to Come Back and Haunt Me" -- The Highland Road -- Gorman and Bakker -- Do Not Fail -- Francesville -- The "Hostile Takeover" -- October 17, 1987 -- I Have Sinned -- Comeback -- Unfinished Business -- Do Nothing -- Under the Influence -- The Secret Room.
- ISBN
- 0826411177
- 9780826411174
- 0826412904
- 9780826412904
- LCCN
- 99032595
- OCLC
- ocm41482253
- 41482253
- SCSB-966046
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library