This is gonna hurt like hell: A Pentecostal student enters the academy

213 Pages·1986·8.09 MB·English

by  Stephen R. Barrett

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This is gonna hurt like hell: A Pentecostal student
enters the academy
Stephen R. Barrett
University of New Hampshire, Durham
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THIS GONNA HURT LIKE HELL:
A PENTECOSTAL STUDENT ENTERS THE ACADEMY
BY
STEPHEN R. BARRETT
BA, Miami University, 1987
MA, Florida State University, 1990
DISSERTATION
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the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
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December, 1997
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DEDICATION
For Tyler, my nephew, a five-year-old Pentecostal
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I want to thank the many souls who gave of themselves and their time to
help me think through family history, pentecostalism, academia, and my
experiences as a member of each of these discourse communities. I want to thank
the members of my dissertation committee, Patricia Sullivan, Cindy Gannett, Jack
Lannamann, Tom Newkirk, and Sarah Sherman for their expressed interest in this
project, for their willingness to work with me, and for their encouragement of me
and belief in the significance of the issues and human beings discussed in these
pages, and for their patience with my non-linear composing process. Were it not
for Patricia Sullivan I would still be in hiding and this project never begun. Were
it not for her and the other members of my committee, all of whom have helped
| me more than they know, I would have abandoned my writing any number of
I times along the way. I’ve never received anything but understanding and
I encouragement and a sense of purpose from each of them. I feel fortunate to have
f these particular human beings work with me. They've been more than teachers
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and mentors to me; they’ve been dear friends. To each one of you, thank you.
God bless you.
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i I want to thank the many members of my family who have helped me to
piece together again the many precious stories my grandfather told for the last time
a quarter of a century ago and the significances preserved in those stories. My
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education in Composition Studies prepared me for multiple (even conflicting)
versions of Grandpa's stories and to be quite comfortable with that multiplicity, but
I could not have anticipated the many things I've learned about my grandfather, the
other members of my family, the wondrous multiplicity of what, for lack of a
better term, I'll call "the truth," and myself in the context of these persons and
these stories. For their time, their generosity, their insights, and their love, I want
to thank, in particular, Delbert Barrett, Joseph Barrett, Marie Smith Barrett, Norma
Carter Barrett, Oscar Barrett, Paul Barrett, Faye Rena Burnette, Alene Cook,
Sherman Cook, Hazel Powell Downard, Geraldine Barrett Houston, Marie Cook
Jones, Acy Lamb, Delora Barrett Lykins, Wiley Lykins, Lillian Sams McHone,
Tom McHone, Ola Barrett Mehring, Jerome Parker, Herb Powell, Mark Powell,
Viola Powell, Cinda Barrett Rogers, and Fannie Barrett Smith.
I want to thank Kathleen Teaze, director, and Mamie Tracey, Jennifer
Sanborn, Tricia Quinn, Wendy Palmer, Stefania Metalious, Irene Maskwa, Sharon
MacDonald, Marjorie Little, Pam Jautaikis, and Susan Brough, the staff at Rye
(New Hampshire) Public Library for becoming my friends and colleagues for two
years, for greatly enhancing my knowledge of library research methods, and for
helping me to lay hands on the sometimes obscure objects of those searches-
books, articles, artifacts—often from points all across the United States. Thank
you.
I also want to thank the professors and graduate students at the University
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