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Series
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press published in association with Georgia Humanities
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 388 pages ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aspects of Georgia's unique history can only be told through its extant rural churches. As the Georgia backcountry rapidly expanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the churches erected on this newly parceled land became the center of community life. These early structures ranged from primitive outbuildings to those with more elaborate designs and were constructed with local, hand-hewn materials to serve the residents who lived...
2) Wise blood
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of Hazel Motes of Eastrod, Tennessee. After release from the army at twenty-two, he comes to a Southern city where he falls under the spell of Asa Hawks, a "blind" street preacher who is led around by his degenerate daughter, Sabbath Lily Hawks, age fifteen. In his struggle to outpreach and outfox Asa Hawks, Hazel founds his own religion, "The Church Without Christ", and announces his mission: "I'm member and preacher to that church...
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH 12
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
1931.
Physical Desc
xv, 369 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
4) Wise blood
Series
Criterion collection volume 470
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Special edition].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, but he somehow makes observations about the state of a run-down country church and understands that there are ridiculous frauds on the streets. Memories inspire him to take up, after initially refusing, to take on the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus. His first...
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