They Shall Take Up Serpents: Psychology of the Southern Snake-Handling Cult by Weston La Barre

They Shall Take Up Serpents: Psychology of the Southern Snake-Handling Cult

Weston La Barre

208 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

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The rural Southern snake-handling cult, still flourishing, is graphically described in its complex historical, ethnographic, and psychosexual background. The specific poor-white, extreme fundamentalist setting of the cult is placed in its New Test...

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