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Salvation on Sand Mountain
Author | : Dennis Covington |
Publsiher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2010-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781458766274 |
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For Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment - covering the trial of an Alabama preacher 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, where people drink strychnine, speak in tongues, lay hands on the sick, and, some claim, raise the dead. 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. University.
Redneck Riviera
Author | : Dennis Covington |
Publsiher | : Counterpoint LLC |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Birmingham (Ala.) |
ISBN | : UOM:39015058076814 |
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The author describes his odyssey to the Gulf Coast of the Florida Panhandle to claim his inheritance, two and a half acres of land purchased by his father, in a study of the clash of values that is tearing apart much of rural America.
Them That Believe
Author | : Ralph Hood,W. Paul Williamson |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-09-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520942714 |
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Although outlawed in many states, serpent handling remains an active religious practice—and one that is far more stereotyped than understood. Ralph W. Hood, Jr. and W. Paul Williamson have spent fifteen years touring serpent-handling churches in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia, conducting scores of interviews with serpent handlers, and witnessing hundreds of serpent-handling services. In this illuminating book they present the most in-depth, comprehensive study of serpent handling to date. Them That Believe not only explores facets of this religious practice—including handling, preaching, and the near-death experiences of individuals who were bitten but survived—but also provides a rich analysis of this phenomenon from historical, social, religious, and psychological perspectives.
The Sound of the Dove
Author | : Beverly Bush Patterson |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0252070038 |
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In The Sound of the Dove, Beverly Bush Patterson explores one of the oldest traditions of American religious folksong, a national heritage of great beauty and dignity that remains vital in the lives and worship of predestinarian Primitive Baptists in the southern mountains. This unaccompanied and frequently unharmonized congregational singing challenges our assumptions about creativity, aesthetics, meaning, and identity. Patterson's revealing study incorporates interviews, field observations, historical research, song transcriptions, and musical analysis. She uses seventeenth-century English documents to trace historical antecedents of Primitive Baptist singing and to frame her discussion of religious belief and gender roles as they intersect with singing. One chapter is devoted to the role of women in this church.
Revelation
Author | : Dennis Covington |
Publsiher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-02-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780316368605 |
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Acclaimed journalist Dennis Covington examines how faith and violence shape our world. In war zones witnessing widespread conflict, what makes life at all worth living? When chaos becomes a way of life in places where religion and violence intersect, what do people hold on to? If religious belief is, as Christopher Hitchens argues, the cause of wars and genocide, then is faith the cure? Dennis Covington pursued answers to these questions for years, traveling deep into places like Syria, Mexico, and the American South. Looking not for rigid doctrines, creeds, or beliefs -- which, he says, can be contradictory, even dangerous -- he sought something bigger and more fundamental: faith. It's faith in goodness, kindness, and the humanity of the smallest moments that makes the most difficult times bearable. The young bomb victim who offers a smile from his hospital bed, the grieving parent who shares a photograph, the joined hands of men who were previously mortal enemies, and Covington's own family turmoil. These are some of the moments that leave him touching the beating heart of what it truly is to live. Like Covington's widely celebrated Salvation on Sand Mountain, Revelation is an intensely personal journey that goes to the edges of a world filled with violence and religious strife to find the enduring worth of living.
Middle of Nowhere
Author | : Sara M. Patterson |
Publsiher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780826356307 |
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In Middle of Nowhere Sara M. Patterson argues that Leonard Knight was a spiritual descendant of the early Christian desert ascetics who escaped to the desert in order to experience God more fully.
Cleaving
Author | : Dennis Covington,Vicki Covington |
Publsiher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2000-05-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780865475892 |
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Told in the authors' alternating voices, "Cleaving" is both the story and the understory of a marriage. After their marriage begins to fall apart, Vicki and Dennis embark on a mission to dig wells in Central America, assuaging a spiritual thirst by addressing a practical need.
World Without Us
Author | : Alan Weisman |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins Canada |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2010-05-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781443400084 |
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Most books about the environment build on dire threats warning of the possible extinction of humanity. Alan Weisman avoids frightening off readers by disarmingly wiping out our species in the first few pages of this remarkable book. He then continues with an astounding depiction of how Earth will fare once we’re no longer around. The World Without Us is a one-of-a-kind book that sweeps through time from the moment of humanity’s future extinction to millions of years into the future. Drawing on interviews with experts and on real examples of places in the world that have already been abandoned by humans—Chernobyl, the Korean DMZ and an ancient Polish forest—Weisman shows both the shocking impact we’ve had on our planet and how impermanent our footprint actually is.