Snake Handlers at Jolo, West Virginia
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Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia $4.00 For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment—covering the trial of an Alabama pastor 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.Set in the heart of Appalachia, Salvation o… |
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Serpent Handling Believers $17.50 In some remote churches in East Tennessee and nearby states, Jesus’s words in the 16th chapter of Saint Mark are taken literally: “and they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.” Members of these churches describe themselves as Pentecostal-Holiness. Burton debunks the myths surrounding these “snake-handlers” and gives a balanced view of their religion…. |
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The Serpent Handlers $11.21 Church members who take Mark 16: 17-18 as a central tenet of their faith call themselves Signs Followers. Previous accounts of the Signs Followers focused on the sensational aspects of the religion: picking up poisonous snakes, drinking strychnine, speaking in tongues.Within these churches are several families whose history in the tradition stretches back as far as the religion itself, which dates… |
