Them That Believe: The Power and Meaning of the Christian Serpent-Handling Tradition (Paperback)

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface

1. "They Shall Take up Serpents"
2. The History of Pentecostalism Absent the Serpent
3. The Media and the Man: George Went Hensley
4. Serpent Handling Endorsed by the Church of God
5. The Serpent: Sign and Symbol
6. Trance States: Tongues Speaking and the Anointing
7. Extemporaneous Sermons in the Serpent-Handling Tradition
8. The Experience of Handling Serpents
9. The Experience of the Anointing
10. Near-Death Experience from Serpent Bites in Religious Settings
11. Music among Serpent-Handling Churches
12. Serpent Handling and the Law: History and Empirical Studies

Epilogue
Appendix
Interpretation
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index
Figure Captions
Plate Captions

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