Better Felt Than Said: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in Southern Appalachia - Tapa dura

Better Felt Than Said is a sensitive and detailed portrait of religious men and women and their struggles in a less than ideal world. It is an important addition to the ethnographic study of Southern Appalachia, for it provides one of the few studies of the region combining participant observation and statistical analysis. Because of its informal probing style, Better Felt Than Said will be valuable to students of Southern Appalachia and religious behavior, as well as to all anthropologists interested in the ethnographic analysis of religion.

Troy D Abell is associate professor of anthropology at Baylor University. He received the Ph.D. in cultural anthro-pology from Purdue University in 1974 and the M.P.H. from Harvard Univer-sity in 1979.