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of meaningless side stories but the lastchapters made the whole book worth reading and would recommend, I can't recommend this book enough, Dennis Covington has written one of the finest pieces of Southern literature that I've ever read, Not only is this a work of true art, but it is also the most objective journalistic account that I've ever encountered.
I've read this book Salvation on Sand Mountain, written by journalist Dennis Covington in a masterly, artistic style, is a cultural expose about religious fundamentalists from southern Appalachia who had come down from the mountains to put their religious stamp on a wider societal milieu, It seems to take the author took a long time to discover the snake handling movement is not of God.
The word says not to temp the Lord thy God! Secondly I believe the reference in Marktalks of accidental involvement with snakes such as Paul being bitten by a deadly I just finished reading Salvation on Sand Mountain.
My thoughts are juxtaposed between my desktop background a photo of my own hand, manicured with long pink fingernails holding a copperhead with its fangs partly extrudedand Covington's images of people in the throes I learned of this book in a Southern Sisters Mystery novel by Anne George.
The topic has always fascinated me and when this was mentioned as the definitive guide to learning about religious snake handling, I wanted to read it.
I found the author's writing style easy to A quick, but potentially life changing read! Ivy leaguers especially can get a real bite out this expose! The book is well written and is fun to read.
The subject matter is strange and intriguing, The author graduated from the University of Virginia, and taught creative writing at the University of

Alabama in Birmingham, He met this congregation of snake handlers inA haunting exploration of faith, from a preacher convicted of attempted murder to a first hand account of holiness serpent handling "One of the best books on American religion from the lastyears" Chicago Tribune

For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, 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, Salvation on Sand Mountain 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.
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