God's Peculiar People: Women's Voices & Folk Tradition in a Pentecostal Church

'Holy rollers'--with this epithet most people dismiss members of the Pentecostal sect as wild religious fanatics. In this new study folklorist Elaine Lawless draws on fieldwork among Pentecostal congregations in the limestone region of southern Indiana to offer a sympathetic view of the Pentecostals as a special group distinguished by their own fold traditions and religions expression.