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Covington, Dennis.
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Covington, Dennis.
Snake cults (Holiness churches)
Snake cults (Holiness churches) -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
Snake cults (Holiness churches) -- Southern States.
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religious life and customs.
Southern States -- Church history.
Appalachian Region -- Church history.
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Salvation on Sand Mo...
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Salvation on Sand Mountain [electronic resource] : snake handling and redemption in southern Appalachia / Dennis Covington.
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Covington, Dennis.
Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2009.
Subjects
Covington, Dennis.
Snake cults (Holiness churches)
Snake cults (Holiness churches) -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
Snake cults (Holiness churches) -- Southern States.
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religious life and customs.
Southern States -- Church history.
Appalachian Region -- Church history.
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0786745827 (electronic bk.)
Description:
1 online resource (xix, 249 pages) : illustrations
Contents:
Following signs -- The trial -- Sheep without a shepherd -- Under the brush arbor -- Jolo -- Roots -- Snakes -- Salvation on Sand Mountain -- War stories -- The wider circle: Elvis Presley Saylor -- The wedding.
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For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignmentcovering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous snakeswould evolve into a headlong plunge into a bizarre, mysterious, and ultimately irresistible world of unshakable faith: the world of holiness snake handling. 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 faithan exploration that gradually turns inward.
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