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Salvation on Sand Mountain : snake handling and redemption in southern Appalachia

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1995

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Format:	Book
Author:	Covington, Dennis.
Title:	Salvation on Sand Mountain : snake handling and redemption in southern Appalachia / Dennis Covington.
Publisher, Date:	Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, ©1995.
Description:	xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary:	Chronicles the trial of snake-handling preacher Glendel Buford Summerford who was convicted of attempted murder after forcing his wife to stick her arm in a box of rattlesnakes, and details how the author was drawn into the lives and religion of the people of The Church of Jesus with Signs Following in southern Appalachia.
Subjects:	Covington, Dennis. Snake-handling churches (Holiness) Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religious life and customs. Southern States -- Church history. Appalachian Region -- Church history.
Contents:	Following signs -- The trail -- Sheep without a shepherd -- Under the brush arbor -- Jolo -- Roots -- Snakes -- Salvation on Sand Mountain -- War stories -- The wider circle: Elvis Presley Saylor -- The Wedding.
LCCN:	94040335
ISBN:	0201622920 9780201622928
Other Number:	31375816
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	12343
# Local items in:	1
# System items in:	1
Call Number:	289.9 Covingto

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