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Book Synopsis All the Snake Handlers I Know Are Dead by : Dennis Danvers
Download or read book All the Snake Handlers I Know Are Dead written by Dennis Danvers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Well-done fantasy. Happy ending without dripping sentiment. ... Deftly sprung, and nice dialogue and narrative voices."--Locus All the Snake Handlers I Know Are Dead, by Dennis Danvers, is dark, magical realism tale about a lone woman building a cabin in the mountains of Appalachia and the strange man she encounters there. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis The Serpent Handlers by : Fred W. Brown
Download or read book The Serpent Handlers written by Fred W. Brown and published by Blair. This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown and McDonald profiles three familiesQone in Middlesboro, Kentucky, one in Newport, Tennessee, and one in Jolo, West VirginiaQinvolved in religious practices which showcase the handling of snakes.
Download or read book Social-envenomation written by Amy Waters and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focused on the deaths that had taken place within the Pentecostal church sects that handled venomous snakes during their religious services. This was accomplished by gathering statistics of 105 cases that were found in literature. The data was gathered through an extensive literature review from online articles, books, and journals. The incidents that were studied occurred between the years 1900 through the most recent case in 2015. The various factors that were examined included: manner of death, gender of victims, age of the victims, date of the death, location of the death, relationship between victim and participating parties, and type of snake that envenomed the victims. Of the 105 cases that were gathered, the most prominent manner of death was deemed an accident. Males accounted for 74 percent of the deaths. The relationship between the victim and the party involved was a staggering 93 percent to a pastor and member. The date of a significant rise in deaths began in 1931 and remained steady until 1980. The ages of the victim were must numerable between the ages of 41-50 years of age, accounting for 25 percent. An overwhelming 33 percent of the deaths took place in Kentucky, with 63 percent of those deaths being accredited to the envenomation by rattlesnake.
Book Synopsis The Snake Handler by : Cody Goodfellow
Download or read book The Snake Handler written by Cody Goodfellow and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let he who is without sin... COME GET SOME. All his life, Reverend Clyde Hilburn has fought to protect his downtrodden flock in the tiny town of Palestine, West Virginia from the evils of the modern world. To that end, he has held a monopoly on not only their souls, but also their thriving drug addiction. But times have changed, and forces larger than him have moved in to take control of both the church and the flow of narcotics. When he suffers a lethal bite from a rattlesnake someone placed in his mailbox, a dying, venom-addicted Clyde has only hours to undo a lifetime of sin, avenge his own murder and save his godforsaken town from the human monsters he's unleashed.
Book Synopsis Taking Up Serpents by : David L. Kimbrough
Download or read book Taking Up Serpents written by David L. Kimbrough and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holiness serpent handlers, who originated around 1910, are one of the most controversial religious groups in America. Their practices have brought them into conflict with authorities many times, and the often sensationalized media accounts of their services fascinate and horrify us.
Download or read book The Other Gospels written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bart Ehrman--the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus and a recognized authority on the early Christian Church--and Zlatko Plese--a foremost authority on Christian Gnosticism--here offer a valuable compilation of over 40 ancient gospel texts and textual fragments that do not appear in the New Testament. This comprehensive collection contains Gospels describing Jesus's infancy, ministry, Passion, and resurrection, and includes the controversial manuscript discoveries of modern times, such as the Gospel of Thomas and the most recent Gospel to be discovered, the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. Each translation begins with a thoughtful examination of important historical, literary, and textual issues in order to place the Gospel in its proper context. This volume is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in early Christianity and the deeper meanings of these apocryphal Gospels.
Book Synopsis Salvation on Sand Mountain by : Dennis Covington
Download or read book Salvation on Sand Mountain written by Dennis Covington and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Venomous Reptiles and Their Toxins by : Bryan Fry
Download or read book Venomous Reptiles and Their Toxins written by Bryan Fry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venom research and technology has advanced greatly, rapidly transforming our knowledge of reptile venoms. Research advances, like the development of molecular systematics, provide the framework necessary to reconstruct the evolutionary history of glands and fangs. Such research developments have expanded our understanding of venom's evolution and its usefulness in therapeutic development. The results of this punctuated toxin molecular evolutionary expansion include protein neofunctionalization. While these changes may impact antivenom efficacy, this molecular diversity also facilitates their usefulness in the development of novel drug therapies. Venomous Reptiles And Their Toxins brings together the world's leading toxinologists in this comprehensive study of the entire scope of reptile venoms, from clinical effects to evolution to drug design and development. The book contains detailed applied chapters on clinical care of the envenomed patient, ineffective traditional or modern remedies, occupational considerations involved in the maintenance of institutional venomous reptile collections, veterinary care for venomous reptiles and research methods used in venom research. This book also devotes a chapter to each toxin class found in reptile venoms, detailing the full trajectory of research on the peptide or protein in question. These chapters discuss each toxin's respective role in the envenomation process through to how each has been explored for their biomedical potential. This book is a unique resource for anyone working with venomous reptiles.
Book Synopsis Serpent-handling Believers by : Thomas G. Burton
Download or read book Serpent-handling Believers written by Thomas G. Burton and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burton seeks to present a balanced view of the remote churches of East Tennessee where believers take literally the words of Saint Mark: "and they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them."
Book Synopsis The Masnavi, Book Three by : Jalal al-Din Rumi
Download or read book The Masnavi, Book Three written by Jalal al-Din Rumi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Your soul each moment struggles hard with death - Think of your faith as though it's your last breath. Your life is like a purse, and night and day Are counters of gold coins you've put away' Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message of divine love and unity to the disciples of Rumi's Sufi order, known today as the Whirling Dervishes. Like the earlier books, Book Three interweaves amusing stories with homilies to instruct pupils in mystical knowledge. It has a special focus on epistemology, illustrated with narratives that involve the consumption of food. This is the first ever verse translation of Book Three of the Masnavi. It follows the original by presenting Rumi's most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming couplets.
Download or read book The Bystander written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dead Until Dark by : Charlaine Harris
Download or read book Dead Until Dark written by Charlaine Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New York Times"-bestselling author Harris has delighted fans with her mystery series featuring small-town waitress-turned-paranormal sleuth Sookie Stackhouse. "Dead Until Dark" is her first novel in the series.
Book Synopsis Through the Back Door by : Katherine Vande Brake
Download or read book Through the Back Door written by Katherine Vande Brake and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armed with literacies of difference stemming from both their natures and their social situations, this book shows how Melungeons are using literacy practices to embrace the difference that they cannot escape.
Book Synopsis The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs by : Solomon Schimmel
Download or read book The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs written by Solomon Schimmel and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs is a passionate yet analytical critique of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural fundamentalists. Schimmel examines the ways in which otherwise intelligent and bright Jews, Christians, and Muslims defend their belief in the divine authorship of the Bible or of the Koran, and other religious beliefs derived from those claims, against overwhelming evidence and argument to the contrary from science, scholarship, common sense, and rational analysis. He also examines the motives, fears, and anxieties of scriptural fundamentalists that induce them to cling so tenaciously to their unreasonable beliefs.Schimmel begins with reflections on his own journey from commitment to Orthodox Judaism, through doubts about its theological dogmas and doctrines, to eventual denial of their truth. He follows this with an examination of theological and philosophical debates about the proper relationships between faith, reason, and revelation. Schimmel then devotes separate chapters to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural fundamentalism, noting their similarities and differences. He analyzes in depth the psychological and social reasons why people acquire, maintain, and protect unreasonable religious beliefs, and how they do so. Schimmel also discusses unethical and immoral consequences of scriptural fundamentalism, such as gender inequality, homophobia, lack of intellectual honesty, self-righteousness, intolerance, propagation of falsehood, and in some instances, the advocacy of violence and terrorism. He concludes with a discussion of why, when, and where it is appropriate to critique, challenge, and combat scriptural fundamentalists. The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs is thoughtful and provocative, written to encourage self-reflection and self-criticism, and to stimulate and to enlighten all who are interested in the psychology of religion and in religious fundamentalism.
Book Synopsis The River Keeper by : Sarah Martin Byrd
Download or read book The River Keeper written by Sarah Martin Byrd and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callie Mae McCauley knows a girl’s got to be leathery, or she’ll be tore to pieces by the weight of all her troubles and trials . . . The tragedy Callie endures will forever change her simple, yet full life in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Orphaned at age eight, she must move to her Granny Jane’s, where she soon realizes the shock of what she’s seen has stolen her voice. A new neighbor and Granny Jane’s swarm of honeybees help Callie find her tongue. She soon discovers that, although Chloe Combs may be peculiar, Miss Chloe may be her only friend when her uncles come to claim their share of Granny Jane’s land that straddles the New River. Her uncles have a plan, and they won’t let anything or anyone stand in their way, certainly not their niece Callie. When Callie ends up in an orphanage, she knows a mountain girl can’t be held inside walls of plaster and wood. A mountain girl’s got to feel the earth beneath her feet and listen as the river makes sweet music in her ears. But time is running out for Callie to save the New River—her river—from her greedy uncles’ plan.
Book Synopsis The Mathnawi by : Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
Download or read book The Mathnawi written by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I See That You Are Down, But When Are You Going to Get Up? by : Shawn McDowell
Download or read book I See That You Are Down, But When Are You Going to Get Up? written by Shawn McDowell and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your life is in constant turmoil or if you are experiencing problems, don't expect others to change. Change comes from within, and what you lack within, you go without. www.shawnmcdowell.com
