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[Identification of item], in the Anderson Blanton Collection of Oral Roberts' Broadcast #20494, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Anderson Blanton in October 2013 (Acc. 101909).

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Processed by: Anne Wells, October 2017

Encoded by: Anne Wells, October 2017

Archival processing of the Anderson Blanton Collection of Oral Roberts' Broadcast was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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• Blanton, Anderson.
• Communication--Religious aspects-- Christianity.
• Evangelists--United States.
• Healers--United States.
• Religious broadcasting--Christianity.
• Roberts, Oral, 1918-2009.

Anderson Blanton is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Through ethnographic and archival research, his work explores the relationship between experiences of divine presence and the material objects and media technologies employed during the performance of both individual and communal prayer. His dissertation, "Until the Stones Cry Out: Materiality, Technology and Faith in the Pentecostal Tradition," was awarded the mark of distinction in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University.

11 transcription discs, 1955-1956, of Oral Roberts' Broadcast, a Christian radio program produced by the evangelist, Oral Roberts, whose televised faith-healing ministry attracted millions of followers worldwide.

• Transcription Discs (TR-20494/1-11)