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13 wrz 2016 · The Full Gospel Jesus Church in Columbus, OH – formerly pastored by Richard Williams. The Church of the Lord Jesus in Jolo, WV, perhaps the most famous serpent-handling church in existence. The Pentecostal Church of God in Lejunior, KY, an early serpent-handling congregation.
Snake handling, also called serpent handling, is a religious rite observed in a small number of isolated churches, mostly in the United States, usually characterized as rural and part of the Holiness movement.
Scope and Contents. This collection includes 184 field recordings and interviews totalling more than 400 hours of documentary footage of serpent handling congregations in Southern Appalachia, featuring extensive footage of church services and interviews with church members of many of the major Holiness serpent handling congregations from 1975 ...
9 lut 2023 · Snake handling is a centuries-old ritual, often involving drinking poison as a demonstration of the strength of their faith. LeBlanc’s new book and exhibition, Gloryland, takes us inside this fabled sect. The project began as he traveled through the South, exploring a moment in American history where old beliefs and traditions are falling ...
26 lut 2024 · This paper is an aesthetic analysis of the practice of serpent handling by Christians in the Appalachian region of the United States. The purpose of this analysis is to understand serpent handling's aesthetic relationship to the Pentecostal tradition and exposit the implications of this relationship for the practice's legal status.
11 sie 2009 · The snake-handling tradition grew out of American Pentecostalism, specifically Pentecostals’ emphasis on supernatural signs as evidence of God’s presence in their lives. The most famous early snake handler was George Went Hensley, who began handling rattlesnakes in the early 1910s.
