Throwdown - Standing Tall

This change in the spiritual traditions of the Presley family is very revealing, because it conveys the proximity of the white poor to the Pentecostal teachings, which then multiplied their supporters. Appearing at the turn of the 20th century, this cult dissociated itself from the Baptist church, more restrained in manifestations of faith. Decisively turning their backs on the “decent” faith of the southern bourgeoisie, Pentecostal preachers presented the Holy Scriptures in a pragmatic and Manichaean reading, better adapted to spirituality for the most part by an illiterate population close to superstition. Wielding hell and paradise, like others with a whip and a carrot, the evangelists appealed more to fear than to reason, plunged the flock with their speeches into a hypnotic state when the Holy Spirit descended on one or the other and he began to speak “in tongues”.