Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky
- ISBN-10
- 086554798X
- ISBN-13
- 9780865547988
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Mercer University Press
- Author
- David L. Kimbrough
Description
David Kimbrough explains the history and practice of serpent-handling believers from the pserspective of a respectful and scholarly participant-ovserver.
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- 2020-04-08
- 390 pages
- Paperback
- Whitechapel Productions
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