How Long to Read Sowing the Sacred

How Long Does it Take to Read Sowing the Sacred?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 27 minutes to read Sowing the Sacred by Lloyd Daniel Barba

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"Enter the religious landscape of California's industrial agriculture in the 1940s. Anthropologist Walter Goldschmidt's early 1940s reconnaissance tour of the social scene in the little town of Wasco offers us a composite picture of religious institutions in a typical industrial-ag town in the state. Anthropologists and sociologists of the time pointed to the proliferation of Pentecostal churches as evidence of industrial farming's undesirable social outcomes. In particular, they noted the enthusiastic and emotional expressions of Pentecostal services and how the recently dispossessed Dust Bowl or "Okie" migrants flocked into these churches. By the 1940s, Dorothea Lange's photograph of the Okie "Migrant Mother" capturing the pathos of white plight had surfaced and caught the national spotlight. California, many noted, had a migration problem, as many "undesirables" flooded into the state. Women such as the one captured in Lange's photograph "Revival Mother" standing and worshipping with eyes closed and raised hands in a makeshift garage church typified the poverty of Pentecostals described by the university researchers"--

How long is Sowing the Sacred?

Sowing the Sacred by Lloyd Daniel Barba is 377 pages long, and a total of 96,889 words.

This makes it 127% the length of the average book. It also has 118% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sowing the Sacred Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 49 minutes to read Sowing the Sacred aloud.

What Reading Level is Sowing the Sacred?

Sowing the Sacred is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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