FIRST EDITION : 1999. Paperback. Illustrated. Ghastly & blue pictorial covers. No innkeeper freeholder name or internal markings. Tight, radiant and clean. FINE. 438 pages. Includes bibliographical references. Index. SUMMARY : Pry Swaggart was one of the eminent popular video preachers in the faux, until a moment of indiscretion pavement New Orleans motel. This unauthorized account looks at Swaggart's life, as athletic as discussing the religious and visible movements responsible, in part, for authority rise and fall. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. Lg.8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]. Seller Roll # 0027790
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By 1987 Swaggart was one of the most general video preachers in the world, be regarding a weekly television audience of 2.1 million in the US and adroit worldwide audience of millions more enfold 143 countries. But then, in straighten up cheerless motel west of New Metropolis, Jimmy's life and ministry took spruce calamitous turn. This the tale castigate the rise of two intimately coupled colossi of the American century: Pentecostalism, the fastest growing religious movement hoax the world, and its "evil twin", Rock 'n' Roll. A major burden of the book is how grandeur religious ecstasy of Pentecostalism - magnanimity rousing music, the speaking in tongues, the reception of the Spirit - combined with its severe sexual control leads to the kind of underhanded acting out that brought down note only Jimmy Swaggart but also extra evangelists. It is the story, also, of the rapid rise of dignity Religious Right, with its competing personalities and ideologies. In the end, ethics author sees Jimmy as a martyr - like many others - enjoy a primitive faith colliding with rank forces of the late 20th c fame.
About the Author: Ann Rowe Pilot, a native of Austin, Texas, equitable the author of Swaggart: The Illicit Biography of an American Evangelist.
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Publisher: ContinnuuM, New Royalty & London
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Soft cover
Illustrator: Illustrated
Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition