In The House Of The Serpent Handler
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In The House Of The Serpent Handler
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Author : Julia C. Duin
language : en
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2024-01-12
In The House Of The Serpent Handler written by Julia C. Duin and has been published by University of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-12 with Religion categories.
In the House of the Serpent Handler offers an intimate and engrossing look at the latest generation of Pentecostal believers who “take up” venomous snakes as a test of their religious faith. Focusing on several preachers and their families in six Appalachian states, journalist Julia C. Duin explores the impact that such twenty-first-century phenomena as social media and “reality television” have had on rituals long practiced in obscurity. As Duin reveals, the mortal snakebite suffered by pastor Mack Wolford in 2012 marked the passing of the torch to younger preachers Jamie Coots and Andrew Hamblin, who were featured in the 2013 series Snake Salvation on the National Geographic Channel. Seeing their participation in the show as a way of publicizing their faith and thus winning converts, Coots and Hamblin attempted to reinvent the snake-handling tradition for a modern audience. The use of the internet, particularly Facebook, became another key part of their strategy to spread their particular brand of Christianity. However, Coots’s own death in 2014 was widely reported after the TV series was canceled, while Hamblin, who emerges as the central figure in the book, was arrested and tried after a shooting incident involving his estranged wife. His hopes of becoming a serpent-handling superstar seemingly dashed, Hamblin spent several months in prison, emerging more determined than ever to keep to the faith. By the end of the narrative, he has begun a new church where he can pass on the tradition to yet another generation. Duin’s thorough, sympathetic reporting and lively style bring the ecstatic church services she witnessed vividly to life, and through interviews and quotations from the principals’ Facebook postings, she has allowed them to express their beliefs and reveal their everyday lives in their own words. She also gives the reader an up-close view of how a reporter pursues a story and the various difficulties encountered along the way. Together these elements frame a striking picture: the young practitioners of a century-old custom—one so often dismissed as bizarre by outsiders—adjusting to the challenges of the new millennium. Julia C. Duin, the former religion editor for the Washington Times, has published articles in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and other national publications. She is the author of five previous books, including, most recently, Days of Fire and Glory: The Rise and Fall of a Charismatic Community.
Handling Serpents
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Author : Jimmy Morrow
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 2005
Handling Serpents written by Jimmy Morrow and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Religion categories.
Jimmy 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.
Serpent Handling Believers
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Author : Thomas G Burton
language : en
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2025-03-14
Serpent Handling Believers written by Thomas G Burton and has been published by University of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-14 with Religion categories.
In some remote churches in East Tennessee and nearby states, Jesus’ words in the sixteenth 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, autonomous groups of Christians with strong traditional religious views and a fundamentalist approach to biblical interpretation. Their strong faith is based largely on personal experience. Handling serpents and fire, laying on the hands of healing, speaking in tongues, and drinking poison are seen as acts of Christian obedience that demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit. In the past these very religious people have often been distorted by the media as members of a “snake religion” or a “snake cult” because of their unorthodox beliefs and practices. Thomas Burton seeks to present a more balanced view of this generally misunderstood group in this in-depth study of serpent handlers and their religious culture. Using both oral history and scholarly research, Burton traces the evolution of Christian serpent handling from its apparent beginning in East Tennessee and explores legal and ethical issues associated with this and other unorthodox practices, allowing participants to speak for themselves through personal interviews. The result is both a dramatic presentation, through vivid photography, and a thorough analytical insight into the serpent handlers’ culture.
Them That Believe
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Author : Ralph Hood
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-09-02
Them That Believe written by Ralph Hood and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-02 with Religion categories.
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.
The Serpent Handlers
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Author : Fred W. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Blair
Release Date : 2000
The Serpent Handlers written by Fred W. Brown and has been published by Blair this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Brown and McDonald profiles three familiesQone in Middlesboro, Kentucky, one in Newport, Tennessee, and one in Jolo, West VirginiaQinvolved in religious practices which showcase the handling of snakes.
The Serpent And The Spirit
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Author : Thomas G. Burton
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2004
The Serpent And The Spirit written by Thomas G. Burton and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Law categories.
Discusses the case of Reverend Glenn Summerford through the eyes of various people; Summerford was tried in Scottsboro, Alabama, in early 1992 for trying to kill his wife with snakes he handled in church.
Taking Up Serpents
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Author : David L. Kimbrough
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 2002
Taking Up Serpents written by David L. Kimbrough and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Religion categories.
David Kimbrough explains the history and practice of serpent-handling believers from the pserspective of a respectful and scholarly participant-ovserver.
Divine Healing The Years Of Expansion 1906 1930
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Author : James Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2014-05-07
Divine Healing The Years Of Expansion 1906 1930 written by James Robinson and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-07 with Religion categories.
In the present volume James Robinson completes his trilogy, which deals with the history of divine healing in the period 1906-1930. The first volume is a study of the years 1830-1890, and was hailed as "a standard reference for years to come." The second book covers the years 1890-1906, and was acclaimed as "a monumental achievement" that combines "careful historical scholarship and a high degree of accessibility." This volume completes the study up to the early 1930s and, like the other two works, has a transatlantic frame of reference. Though the book gives prominence to the theology and practice of divine healing in early Pentecostalism, it also discusses two other models of healing, the therapeutic and sacramental, promoted within sections of British and American Anglicanism. Some otherwise rigorous Fundamentalists were also prepared to practice divine healing. The text contributes more widely to medical and sociocultural histories, exemplified in the rise of psychotherapy and the cultural shift referred to as the Jazz Age of the 1920s. The book concludes by discussing the major role that divine healing plays in the present rapid growth of global Christianity.
Preacher Ain T Done Til The Snakes Are Back In The Box
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Author : Rickard Ljunggren
language : en
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Release Date : 2025-02-17
Preacher Ain T Done Til The Snakes Are Back In The Box written by Rickard Ljunggren and has been published by BoD - Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-17 with Science categories.
The book is about the Pentecostal churches in the southeastern United States that use venomous snakes during worship to affirm their faith to themselves and to other church members. In addition to the book's overall description of the phenomenon, two pastors have also participated by sharing their faith. Of course, the book is also about the snakes they use, snakes always play the main role in my books. How are the snakes affected by being taken from the wild and handled during church services?
Appalachian Mountain Religion
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Author : Deborah Vansau McCauley
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1995
Appalachian Mountain Religion written by Deborah Vansau McCauley and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
"A monumental achievement. . . . Certainly the best thing written on Appalachian Religion and one of the best works on the region itself. Deborah McCauley has made a winning argument that Appalachian religion is a true and authentic counter-stream to modern mainstream Protestant religion." -- Loyal Jones, founding director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College Appalachian Mountain Religion is much more than a narrowly focused look at the religion of a region. Within this largest regional and widely diverse religious tradition can be found the strings that tie it to all of American religious history. The fierce drama between American Protestantism and Appalachian mountain religion has been played out for nearly two hundred years; the struggle between piety and reason, between the heart and the head, has echoes reaching back even further--from Continental Pietism and the Scots-Irish of western Scotland and Ulster to Colonial Baptist revival culture and plain-folk camp-meeting religion. Deborah Vansau McCauley places Appalachian mountain religion squarely at the center of American religious history, depicting the interaction and dramatic conflicts between it and the denominations that comprise the Protestant "mainstream." She clarifies the tradition histories and symbol systems of the area's principally oral religious culture, its worship practices and beliefs, further illuminating the clash between mountain religion and the "dominant religious culture" of the United States. This clash has helped to shape the course of American religious history. The explorations in Appalachian Mountain Religion range from Puritan theology to liberation theology, from Calvinism to the Holiness-Pentecostal movements. Within that wide realm and in the ongoing contention over religious values, the many strains of American religious history can be heard.