5/12/2023 0 Comments Salvation on sand mountainThe book thus follows in the genre of the documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee, who pioneered the aesthetic/ experiential form of non-fiction filmmaking by setting out to document a time and place but ultimately turning the camera on himself and his own experience of it. The author becomes so immersed in the world of snake-handling that he himself becomes one. What begins as an objective exercise in describing this peculiar region and its religions practices quickly becomes a personal exercise in reflection and faith. Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington is a work of non-fiction that sets out initially to objectively describe a time and place-the rural South in the early 1990s, specifically the part of the rural South in which snake-handling is practiced by Christian sects. Finding Faith in Salvation on Sand Mountain
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