Author:
Duin, Julia, author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2017]
Description227 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm
Note:Cut off from the land of the living -- Off to Tennessee -- Jolo -- Meeting Andrew -- LaFollette and Middlesboro -- Jimmy Morrow's church -- Sand mountain -- The reality show -- The arrest -- New year's eve -- Another death -- Andrew's homecoming -- The summer of their discontent -- Descolation -- November moon -- A birth -- Gunshots -- The full house -- Appendix one: Research methods -- Appendix two: Where to find serpent-handling churches.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-221) and index.
Note:This book "offers an intimate 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 a social media and "reality television" have had on rituals long practiced in obscurity." --Back cover.
