Research Catalog

Title

Handling serpents : Pastor Jimmy Morrow's narrative history of his Appalachian Jesus' Name tradition / Jimmy Morrow ; with Ralph W. Hood, Jr., editor.

Author

Morrow, Jimmy.

Publication

Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Hood, Ralph W., Jr., 1942-

Description

210 p., [31] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Church of God with Signs Following > History
• Snake cults (Holiness churches) > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- Preface: How I Came to Believe in Serpent Handling -- Chapter 1: The Doctrine of Jesus and the Prophetess Nancy Younger Klenieck -- Chapter 2: George Hensley and the Notoriety of Serpent Handling -- Chapter 3: The Jesus' Name Churches Organize and Grow -- Chapter 4: Serpent Handling Comes to Grasshopper Valley -- Chapter 5: Jesus' Name Handlers in Cocke County, Tennessee -- Chapter 6: Jesus' Name Handlers in Newport, Tennessee -- Chapter 7: The Death of Charles Prince in Greensville, Tennessee -- Chapter 8: The Death by Serpent Bite of George Hensley and Other Jesus' NameBelievers -- Chapter 9: Brother Colonel Harman Bunn and the Zion Tabernacle -- Chapter 10: TheBite of a Young Man at The Sand Hill Church of God in Jesus' Name -- Chapter 11: The Holiness Church of God in Jesus' Name -- Chapter 12: Trouble in the Churches: More Deaths and Bites -- Chapter 13: The Del Rio and Edwina Churches of God in Jesus Christ's Name -- Chapter 14: The Death of Jimmy Ray Williams Jr. -- Chapter 15: The Death of Punkin Brown and the Battle for Custody of his Children -- Chapter 16: God Grants Me a Vision of Hell and the Power to Preach the Word -- Chapter 17: The Family Tree of Jimmy Morrow -- Chapter 18: The Family Tree of Pam Morrow.

ISBN

086554848X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005002195

OCLC

57641182

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library