Serpent Handlers Three Families and Their Faith

Name: Serpent Handlers Three Families and Their Faith
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ISBN: 9780895873521

ISBN-10: 0895873524

ISBN-13: 9780895873521

Edition: 2007

Authors: Fred Brown, Jeanne McDonald

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Church members who take Mark 16: 17-18 as a central tenet of their faith call themselves Signs Followers. Previous accounts of the Signs Followers focused on the sensational aspects of the religion: picking up poisonous snakes, drinking strychnine, speaking in tongues.Within these churches are several families whose history in the tradition stretches back as far as the religion itself, which dates only to 1910. In The Serpent Handlers, the authors use extensive interviews with the participants to tell the stories of three of the most prominent snake-handling families the Brown family of Cocke County, Tennessee, the Elkins family of Jolo, West Virginia, and the Coots family of Middlesboro,…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Carolina Wren Press
Publication date: 6/30/2018
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Fred Brown is a senior writer & columnist for the Knoxville News-Sentinel. He is the author, with Jeanne McDonald, of Handling Serpents: Three families & Their Faith & Growing Up Southern: How the South Shapes Writers.