Reviewed by James S. Bielo (Miami University). Come and listen in to the radio station, Where the mighty hosts of heaven sing, Turn your radio on, turn your radio on, Turn your radio on, turn your radio on…
So sings John Hartford on his 1971 cover of the 1938 southern Gospel standard.
Anderson Blanton
Blanton, “Hittin’ the Prayer Bones.”
Blanton, Anderson. 2015. Hittin’ the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Publisher’s …
Blanton “TV Prayer”
Blanton, Anderson. 2013. “TV Prayer.” Reverberations. http://forums.ssrc.org/ndsp/2013/04/10/tv-prayer/ Excerpt: A pivotal moment in the technological history of prayer occurred when Oral Roberts introduced the …
Blanton, “Appalachian Radio Prayers”
Blanton, Anderson. 2012. Appalachian Radio Prayers: the prosthesis of the Holy Ghost and the drive to tactility. In Radio Fields: …