Holiness Church of God in Jesus Name (Carson Springs, Tenn.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas G. Burton and Thomas F. Headley Tapes
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0227
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of the materials generated during the production of Thomas Burton’s and Thomas Headley’s three documentaries: Carson Springs: A Decade Later (1983), Following the Signs: A Way of Conflict (1987), and Traditional Springs: Violence in the South (1985). The collection documents the religious practices of two Pentecostal-Holiness churches in Cocke County, Tennessee: the Holiness Church of God in Jesus Name in Carson Springs and the Jesus Christ Apostolic...
Dates:
1973, 1983-1987 and undated
Thomas G. Burton Collection
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0160
Scope and Contents
The Thomas G. Burton Collection includes manuscripts, photographic prints and negatives, audio and video tapes. The manuscripts include dub sheets and tape transcripts, one copy of a songbook, documentation related to the Tennessee Traditions in Perspective Colloquium, and one booklet on Tennessee snake-handlers. The photographic prints and negatives focus on serpent-handling church services in West Virginia and Tennessee. The audio and video tapes cover serpent-handling church services in...
Dates:
1983 - 2001
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Thomas G. Burton Collection
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- Distilling, Illicit -- Tennessee 1
- Distilling, Illicit--Appalachian Region, Southern 1
- Erwin (Tenn.) 1
- Folk music 1
- Folk songs -- Appalachian Region, Southern 1
- Folklore -- Appalachian Region, Southern 1
- Fundamentalist churches -- Appalachian Region 1
- Jack tales 1
- Law enforcement--Appalachian Region 1
- Law enforcement--Southern States 1
- Newport (Tenn.) 1
- Religion--Appalachian Region 1
- Scots-Irish--Migrations 1
- Serpents--Religious aspects--Christianity 1
- Snake cults (Holiness churches)--Fiction 1
- Storytelling 1
- Tall tales 1 + ∧ less
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