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Serpents, Sainthood, and Celebrity: Symbolic and Ritual Tension in Appalachian Pentecostal Snake Handling.
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Keith G. Tidball and Chris Toumey
Abstract
Intense media coverage of Appalachian Pentecostal-Holiness serpent handling sometimes causes a switch in signifier/signified relationships. The snakes used symbolically in this practice are grounded less in traditional religious meaning, and more in a certain recent secular meaning: from signifying faith in the Holy Spirit to indicating the value of celebrity status. This phenomenon is analyzed in a framework of theories about symbols and rituals, and is then described in a series of ethnographic observations at a ...
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(book reviews)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; The serpent handlers look you. A...encountered the serpent handlers while covering...Summerford, a serpent-handling preacher, was...people in the serpent-handling subculture...explaining the serpent handlers' use of Mark...controversy among the serpent ...
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The Serpent Handlers.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch
; The Serpent Handlers Fred Brown and Jeanne McDonald...blairpub.com 1-800-222-9796 The Serpent Handlers: Three Families and Their Faith...longstanding respect, and offers The Serpent Handlers as a counterbalance. Great pains...
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Handling serpents; Pastor Jimmy Morrow's narrative history of his Appalachian Jesus' Name tradition.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...is a native Appalachian, pastor, and long-time serpent handler in Tennessee who has collected extensive oral accounts of serpent handling to integrate with his own experience into a non-sensational description and explanation. Co-author Hood is a psychologist...
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The King of Cups.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Small Press Bookwatch
; ...struggles to bring his family together again, his adventures range from bare-knuckle prize fighting to voodoo baptism, serpent handling, and when he finds his true love, he gains the ruthless vengeance of her bitter, jilted rival. A dark, exciting adventure...
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Melton, J. Gordon. The encyclopedia of religious phenomena.(Young adult review)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt
; ...temples, and holy sites throughout the world. We read of Native American beliefs about Mt. Shasta (California); we read of serpent handling, speaking in tongues; we read of feng shui, milk-drinking statues, statues that move; we read about holy people such as...
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The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia.(Movie Review)
Magazine article from: Take One
; ...shanty-like homes, Adams partakes in community BBQs, family gatherings on the porch and even the controversial religious Serpent Handling rituals, all the time falling deeper into a noticeably thicker Kentucky drawl. Adams remarks: It's far beyond documenting...
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Gary Monroe at CUE.(renaissance painting)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...expressive color. The blue figure of Sherman Lawson, an evangelical preacher, is struck down by a vision in which three red serpent handlers dance around him. Their arms reach out in a fashion reminiscent of the figures in Matisse's The Dance (1910), while God...
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