“You Will Not Surely Die”: The Pentecostal Aesthetics and Ethics of Serpent Handling

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 relatio...

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Main Author: Kamenicky, Michael Austin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2024
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2024, Volume: 52, Issue: 2, Pages: 189-208
Further subjects:B Pentecostalism
B serpent handling
B Appalachia
B Aesthetics
B Nimi Wariboko
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