Salvation on Sand Mountain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Salvation on Sand Mountain write by Dennis Covington. This book was released on 2010-02. Salvation on Sand Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For 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.
Them That Believe
Them That Believe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Them That Believe write by Ralph Hood. This book was released on 2008-09-02. Them That Believe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although 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.
Cleaving
Cleaving - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cleaving write by Dennis Covington. This book was released on 2000-05-08. Cleaving available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Told in the authors' alternating voices, "Cleaving" is both the story and the understory of a marriage. After their marriage begins to fall apart, Vicki and Dennis embark on a mission to dig wells in Central America, assuaging a spiritual thirst by addressing a practical need.
Redneck Riviera
Redneck Riviera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Redneck Riviera write by Dennis Covington. This book was released on 2004. Redneck Riviera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author describes his odyssey to the Gulf Coast of the Florida Panhandle to claim his inheritance, two and a half acres of land purchased by his father, in a study of the clash of values that is tearing apart much of rural America.
Serpent-handling Believers
Serpent-handling Believers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Serpent-handling Believers write by Thomas G. Burton. This book was released on 1993. Serpent-handling Believers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Burton 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."
