In the House of the Serpent Handler
Author: Julia Duin
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781621903758
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Author: Julia Duin
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781621903758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ralph Hood
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-09-02
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 052094271X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough outlawed in many states, serpent handling remains an active religious practice—and one that is far more stereotyped than understood. Ralph W. Hood, Jr. and W. Paul Williamson have spent fifteen years touring serpent-handling churches in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia, conducting scores of interviews with serpent handlers, and witnessing hundreds of serpent-handling services. In this illuminating book they present the most in-depth, comprehensive study of serpent handling to date. Them That Believe not only explores facets of this religious practice—including handling, preaching, and the near-death experiences of individuals who were bitten but survived—but also provides a rich analysis of this phenomenon from historical, social, religious, and psychological perspectives.
Author: Dennis Covington
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010-02
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1458766276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment - covering the trial of an Alabama preacher convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous snakes - would evolve into a headlong plunge into a bizarre, mysterious, and ultimately irresistible world of unshakable faith: the world of holiness snake handling, where people drink strychnine, speak in tongues, lay hands on the sick, and, some claim, raise the dead. Set in the heart of Appalachia, Salvation on Sand Mountain is Covington's unsurpassed and chillingly captivating exploration of the nature, power, and extremity of faith - an exploration that gradually turns inward, until Covington finds himself taking up the snakes. University.
Author: Lauren Pond
Publisher: Center for Documentary Studies
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780822370345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Test of Faith Lauren Pond, Winner of the Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, documents a Signs Following preacher and his family in rural West Virginia, offering a deeply nuanced, personal look at serpent handling that invites a greater understanding of a religious practice that has long faced derision and criticism.
Author: Fred Brown
Publisher: Blair
Published: 2007-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780895873521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In [this book], the authors use extensive interviews with [snake handlers] to tell the stories of three of the most prominent snake-handling families."--Back cover
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: Farshore
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781405266079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe siblings endure a car accident, a terrible smell, a deadly serpent, a long knife, a brass reading lamp, and the re-appearance of a person they hoped to never see again.
Author: Julia Duin
Publisher: Chariot Victor Pub
Published: 1997-06-01
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780745938165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers six stories adapted from tales by Annie Fellows Johnston
Author: Julia Duin
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780979027970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter she met Graham Pulkingham, the spellbinding priest who had led Redeemer into a powerful renewal starting in 1964, Duin became convinced the world needed to know the story of this gifted man and his church. As she began investigating the story, many warned her there was a darker history behind Pulkingham. Now the journalist who first broke that story reveals the details of the scandal that rocked the charismatic and Christian community movements, and the Episcopal Church.--Books in Print
Author: Thomas G. Burton
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780870497889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBurton seeks to present a balanced view of the remote churches of East Tennessee where believers take literally the words of Saint Mark: "and they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them."
Author: Jimmy Morrow
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780865548480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJimmy Morrow, a pastor and serpent handler for over a quarter of a century explores the history of serpent handling from a variety of sources, including his extensive familiarity with families whose roots are deep in Appalachia. As a native Appalachian Jimmy has access to histories unavailable to outsiders. While not formally trained as a historian, Jimmy's own narrative of the Jesus Name tradition is a unique contribution to not only Appalachian studies, but to the history of what many have prematurely thought to be a tradition whose obituary is soon to be written. Jimmy's astounding photographs and his keen insight to the power of this tradition that he proudly upholds suggests that while unlikely ever to be a dominant form of religious expression, it will continue as perhaps Americas most unique form of religion that persists in Appalachia despite laws against the practice of handling serpents. This is an extraordinary personal account of a unique form of religious devotion and dedication. It will be of interest to anyone interested in Appalachian culture or religion in the South.