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Salvation on Sand Mountain

Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

by Dennis Covington

  • Paperback
  • 288 pages
  • Publisher: Ingram Publisher Services Us
  • 13.8 x 20.9 x 2.1 cm

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This is the 15th Anniversary Edition of "New York Times" journalist Dennis Covington's National Book Award finalist - with a new afterword by the author. Glended Buford Summerford, pastor of the Church of Jesus with Signs Following, was convicted of trying to kill his wife with poisonous snakes. As Dennis Covington covered the murder trial, he discovered the bizarre, mysterious, ultimately irresistible world of holiness snake handling - a world of unshakable faith, where people handle poisonous snakes, drink strychnine, speak in tongues, lay hands on the sick, and, some claim, raise the dead. As Covington explored the lives and beliefs of the poor white Southerners who practice this strange form of religion, he gradually began to explore his own soul. With an admirable balance of objectivity and passion, he writes of his ancestors, who came down from the hills of Appalachia only two generations ago, of the riveting power of the faith he witnesses, and finally, of his own spiritual transformation, which leads him to join those he is writing about and take up the snakes.
Salvation on Sand Mountain and Practicing the Way
Practicing the WaySalvation on Sand Mountain

  • Author

    Dennis Covington

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Ingram Publisher Services Us

  • Published

    August 2009

  • Edition

    15th anniversary ed

  • Weight

    250g

  • Page Count

    288

  • Dimensions

    13.8 x 20.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780306818363

  • ISBN-10

    0306818361

  • Eden Code

    2393539

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