Them that believe
Subtitle: the power and meaning of the Christian serpent-handling tradition
By: Ralph W. Hood Jr. and W. Paul Williamson.
Contributors: Williamson, W. Paul
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780520231474; 9780520255876
Subjects: Snake cults (Holiness churches); Serpents -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "They shall take up serpents"; title: The history of Pentecostalism absent the serpent; title: The media and the man : George Went Hensley; title: Serpent handling endorsed by the Church of God; title: The serpent : sign and symbol; title: Trance states : tongues speaking and the anointing; title: Extemporaneous sermons in the serpent-handling tradition; title: The experience of handling serpents; title: The experience of the anointing; title: Near-death experience from serpent bites in religious settings; title: Music among serpent-handling churches; title: Serpent handling and the law : history and empirical studies.