01465cam a2200277 4500 91518130 TxAuBib 20111205120000.0 941003s1995||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 94040335 9780201622928 $20.00 ($25.95 Can.) 0201622920 $20.00 ($25.95 Can.) (OCoLC)31375816 TxAuBib Covington, Dennis. Salvation on Sand Mountain : snake handling and redemption in southern Appalachia / Dennis Covington. Reading, Mass : Addison-Wesley, 1995. xv, 240 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. HARDBACK. What began as a journalistic assignment-covering the trial of an Alabama pastor 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. Set in the heart of Appalachia, 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. 20111205. Covington, Dennis. Snake cults (Holiness churches.) Appalachian Region, Southern Religious life and customs. TXMOO