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ISBN10: 1621903753, ISBN13: 9781621903758, [publisher: Univ Tennessee Press] Softcover Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 0.79 [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2017]
ISBN10: 1621903753, ISBN13: 9781621903758, [publisher: University of Tennessee Press, Chicago] Softcover Paperback. Offers an intimate and engrossing look at the latest generation of Pentecostal believers who take up venomous snakes as a test of their religious faith. Focusing on several preachers and their families in six Appalachian states, journalist Julia C. Duin explores the impact that such twenty-first-century phenomena as social media and reality television have had on rituals long practiced in obscurity.As Duin reveals, the mortal snakebite suffered by pastor Mack Wofford in 2012 marked the passing of the torch to younger preachers Jamie Coots and Andrew Hamblin, who were featured in the 2013 series Snake Salvation on the National Geographic Channel. Seeing their participation in the show as a way of publicizing their faith and thus winning converts, Coots and Hamblin attempted to reinvent the snake-handling tradition for a modern audience. The use of the internet, particularly Facebook, became another key part of their strategy to spread their particular brand of Christianity. However, Cootss own death in 2014 was widely reported after the TV series was canceled, while Hamblin, who emerges as the central figure in the book, was arrested and tried after a shooting incident involving his estranged wife. His hopes of becoming a serpent-handling superstar seemingly dashed, Hamblin spent several months in prison, emerging more determined than ever to keep to the ...
ISBN10: 1621903753, ISBN13: 9781621903758, [publisher: Univ Tennessee Press] Softcover Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.79 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2017]
ISBN10: 1621903753, ISBN13: 9781621903758, [publisher: Univ Tennessee Press] Softcover Like New condition. Great condition, but not exactly fully crisp. The book may have been opened and read, but there are no defects to the book, jacket or pages. 0.79 [Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2017]
ISBN10: 1621903753, ISBN13: 9781621903758, [publisher: Univ Tennessee Press] Softcover Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. [Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2017]
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