For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment,covering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous snakes,would evolve into a headlong plunge into a...

"Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia" von Dennis Covington ist ein fesselndes Sachbuch, das die faszinierende und oft missverstandene Welt der Schlangenhandlungsreligionen im Süden der USA...

Describes a trial, in which the leader of a snake-handling cult was convicted of trying to murder his wife with rattlesnakes