A remarkable achievement. Mountain Holiness combines Warren Brunner s poignant and sensitive photographs with a succinct narrative by Deborah McCauley, the preeminent authority on Appalachian mountain religion. This is a landmark study that sheds light on one of the most neglected subjects in American religion. Randall Balmer, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of American Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University
Hidden deep in the hills of central Appalachia, tiny churches have quietly carried on their worship practices in an unbroken chain for two centuries. Harking back to the...