Snake Handling

Bibliography of Holdings
Revised October 2004

Burton, Thomas. Serpent-Handling Believers . Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1993. Pent. BX7990 H6 B87 1993

Burton, Thomas.  The Serpent and the Spirit: Glenn Summerford's Story.   Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2004. KF 224 S78 B87 2004

Carden, Karen W. and Robert W. Pelton. The Persecuted Prophets: The Story of the Frenzied Serpent Handlers . A.S. Barnes and Company, 1976. Pent. BX7990 H6 C28 1976

Church of God Evangel (Index of articles dealing with snake handling, 1910-1949).

Collins, J.B. Tennessee Snake Handlers: the Dolley Pond Church of God with Signs Following . N.p., 1947. Pent. BX7990 H6 C6

Covington, Dennis. Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia . Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.
Pent. BX7990 H6 C6 1995

Daughtery, Mary Lee. "Serpent-Handling as Sacrament." In Theology Today 33:3 (October 1976): 232-243.

Kane, Steven M. "Appalachian Snake Handlers." In Perspectives on the American South . Vol 4, James C. Cobb and Charles R. Wilson, eds. Gordon and Breach, 1987.

Kane, Steven Michael. Snake Handlers of Southern Appalachia . Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1979. Pent. BX7990 H6 K35 1981

Kimbrough, David L. Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky . The University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pent. BX7990 H6 K46 1995

LaBarre, Weston. They Shall Take Up Serpents: Psychology of the Southern Snake-Handling Cult . University of Minnesota Press, 1962. Pent. BL441 L3

Pelton, Robert W. and Karen W. Carden Snake Handlers: God-fearers? Or, Fanatics? Thomas Nelson, 1974. Pent. BX7990 H6 P38

"Snake Handling." Information file, Hal Bernard Dixon Jr. Pentecostal Research Center. (Contains numerous newspaper articles concerning snake handling).

"Snake Handling in Scottsboro, Ala." NBC Dateline, January 1995 [Video Tape]

Other Possible Resources:

East Tennessee State University Archives has a collection on snake-handling.