Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
by Dennis Covington

Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Da Capo Press; reissue edition (August 11, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0306818361
ISBN-13: 978-0306818363


This remarkable book tells of the author's interest in the serpent-handling Holiness believers of the south, his own spiritual journey and the search for his roots. Covington attended his first snake handling service in 1992 at the Church of Jesus With Signs Follo… Continue

Serpent-handling believers
byThomas Burton


Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press; 1 edition (March 1993)
ISBN-10: 087049788X
ISBN-13: 978-0870497889


In this absorbing work, Burton presents a balanced view of serpent handling believers, their history and religious culture. Combining academic research and oral sources, the author charts the history of the phenomenon while examining the legal and ethical issues associated with the practice. Although it is a schola… Continue

The Serpent Handlers
by Fred W. Brown; Jeanne McDonald

Paperback: 356 pages
Publisher: John F Blair Pub; 2 edition (October 1, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0895873524
ISBN-13: 978-0895873521

Serpent handling is a controversial practice that is often sensationalized by the media. However, the adherents of the Signs Following churches generally avoid publicity. That is what makes this book so special: The believers speak for themselves in telling their own true stories in their own words. What emerges… Continue

… with reference to different spiritual traditions.

These are just my brief opinions/observations, I am no expert on the perception of these matters in all religions nor have I read enough to consider all angles and of course there are exceptions everywhere.

AZTEC: Death-worship.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN: Totally death-obsessed. Everything revolved around the next world. There were two souls, one of which was called “ka”, the other “ba” which had some connection to the body.

EASTERN: The concept of… Continue

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