Salvation on Sand Mountain
Dennis Covington writes about the snake handling rituals that go on in Scottsboro, Alabama, in March on 1992 he calls it Salvation on Sand Mountain. While going to the services held at the churches, Covington realizes that he is not only doing a story on other people’s religions, but that he is also discovering his own religion. Covington creates feelings of sympathy and disgust for the reader while he talks about snake handling in southern churches. Through Covington’s eyes the reader is exposed to his spiritual journey, family, and southern beliefs about snake handling.Covington’s spiritual journey throughout Salvation on Sand Mountain was shocking. It makes one think that the phrase “everything happens for a reason” really is true. His first experience in a serpent-handling church was “exhilarating and unsettling” (11). Compared to Covington’s small Methodist church in Birmingham, Al. the snake-handling
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Approximate Word count = 634
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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