snake handling

'Snake handling would explain how so many got to be out there.

Practitioners of snake handling continue to view Hensley as a great man.

After Hensley spoke with her, she accepted the doctrine of snake handling.

"Snake handling can be faked," another heckler took it up.

Two topics that the series generally avoided were politics and controversial religious practices such as snake handling.

The church service includes faith healing, snake handling, speaking in tongues and singing.

Many also learned proper snake handling techniques, and people called on them to remove serpents from their homes.

He later resigned his ministry and started the first holiness movement church to require snake handling as evidence of salvation.

The practice plays only a small part of the church service of churches that practice snake handling.

However, snake handling had lost popularity since the late 1920s and groups that promoted nontrinitarianism had become popular.

To him, snake handling was a modern-day confirmation of God's power to supernaturally deliver people from harm.

Hensley's first experience with snake handling occurred between 1908 and 1914, after which he held snake-handling services in parts of rural Tennessee.

In 2001 there were about 40 small churches that practiced snake handling, most of them considered to be holiness-Pentecostals or charismatics.

We learn that Phreak is a 15-year-old boy whose father was part a snake handling sect and died of a rattlesnake bite.

Greek art and literature, as well as some patristic texts, indicate that the orgia involved snake handling.

Sulochana textiles provided the eco friendly snake handling tools, which were distributed at free of cost to the trainees.

Hensley's theology, with the exception of his snake handling, was typical of other fundamentalist Pentecostal churches.

Many writers have attempted to designate one person, often Hensley, as the progenitor of Appalachian religious snake handling.

Snake handling was made a felony punishable by death under Georgia law in 1941, following the death of a seven-year-old girl from a rattlesnake bite.

The X Files episode "Signs and Wonders" deals heavily with snake handling.

Costly religious rituals such as male circumcision, food and water deprivation, and snake handling look paradoxical in evolutionary terms.

The Kentucky law specifically mentions religious services; in Kentucky snake handling is a misdemeanor and punishable by a $50 to $250 fine.

There's prayer, of course, and burnt offerings and fasting and animal sacrifice and snake handling.

Kimbrough recorded a discussion with an advocate of snake handling who dismissed Hensley's personal failings as slanderous fabrications.

Most snake handling practices, therefore, take place in the homes of worshippers, which avoids the process of attempting to obtain a government permit for the church.