Salvation on Sand Mountain

Salvation on Sand Mountain The climax of Salvation on Sand Mountain, author Dennis Covington’s account of his own exploration into the bizarre and small world of snake-handling, is when Covington himself takes up the snakes for his first (and last) time. As he describes in great detail, the experience of snake-handling for Covington was similar to that of an awakening. Covington felt no fear, as the snake became an extension of himself and the entire room faded to white. As Covington begins to come

Dennis Covington’s Salvation on Sand Mountain begins by focusing on the trail of Glenn Summerford. This creates a great stir in the small town of Scottsboro, Alabama, and what begins as a typical journalist seeking a hot story on an uncommon subject turns into something more. In some ways, Covington goes on a personal quest to further understand faith, though this is something that is not directly or explicitly stated in the novel. A large part of the book focuses on the snaking handling experience;

Dennis Covington was not biased when it came to writing Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia. Covington did not have a preconceived notion or bias towards snake handling. Prior to Covington's involvement with the snake handlers, he was in a spiritual place in his life were he was not for or against snake handling. When Covington was assigned to cover the Reverend's trial, he did not come with the intention of becoming a member of the snake handling community

Dennis Covington writes about a unique method of worship—snake handling, in his memoir, Salvation on Sand Mountain. He begins as a journalist, looking in on this foreign way of life; however, as time progresses he increasing starts to feel a part of this lifestyle. As a result loses his journalistic approach, resulting in his memoir, detailing his own spiritual journey. Upon the conclusion of his stay in this world, Covington realizes the significance of this journey, and argues in his memoir that

Throughout Dennis Covington’s book titled Salvation on Sand Mountain, it became clear that snake handling within the Pentecostal churches, more specifically in the Southern United States, provided an experience unlike any other mainstream forms of religion for the people who participated. Through analyzing and questioning these experiences, many things became clear. For instance, the motives behind why they decided to participate in the praising of the Holy Ghost in such a way as this, what they

Authors Steven Prothero and Robert Orsi have taken strong, unyielding opinions on Dennis Covington’s work Salvation on Sand Mountain, and debated the ethics behind Covington and his research. Robert Orsi claims that researches in the field of religious studies should keep a level of otherness with their subject of research to keep an objective standpoint, so religious studies can maintain a social sciences level of prestige. On the other hand, Prothero argues that religious studies should be free

or she is going. There will be a stated reason for going, and a real reason for going, which is always for the questr to gain self-knowledge. Finally, the questr must also face obstacles along the journey. Dennis Covington, the questr in Salvation on Sand Mountain, is a journalist headed to Scottsboro, Alabama, the stated place to go, with an assignment to cover the trial of Glenn Summerford, a preacher who had possibly murdered his wife with the snakes he used to worship God. While covering the trial

In Dennis Covington’s book Salvation on Sand Mountain and David Haberman’s Journey Through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter with Krishna, we get two very different experiences of researches stepping into a world of different religion and perspectives than their own. While both Haberman and Covington focus on a certain religion and the traditions of its followers, Haberman does a better job with presenting an accurate representation of Hinduism and the Braj pilgrimage. This is because Covington’s

survive. After meeting the author announces the character, the forest envelopes in flames and the boys were in grave danger. The fire was also shown to equal community and civilization to signal boats. Near the end of the story, fire represented salvation in that it signaled a cruiser to rescue them. During the prelude of the boys encounter on the island, the fire initially typified danger and a lack of order, but as the plot

Christianity: The Inherent Evil of Man In many meritorious novels, the author often gives the novel several different meaning, allowing the reader to glimpse the novel under different lights using different lenses of focus. In different parts of the worlds, authors commonly use a religious allegory to touch the reader at a spiritual level, allowing the reader to become even more involved in the novel than before. In european or american novels, authors use biblical allegories, because the vast majority