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Snake cults (Holiness churches)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Broadside Television (T.V.) Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0028
Scope and Contents The Broadside Television Collection includes both manuscripts and tapes. The manuscript documentation includes legal, financial, personnel, publicity and programming records, as well as correspondence and grant proposals. The tapes cover the myriad of topics included among Broadside's programs. Among these topics are local and regional history, environment, aging, medical care, Appalachian folklore, and country music.An addition incorporated into the existing collection includes...
Dates: 1970 - 1978
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Broadside Television (T.V.) Collection

Thomas Burton and Jack Schrader Films

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0441
Scope and Contents The Thomas Burton and Jack Schrader films resulted from a partnership that began in the 1970s, when Burton began working with Schrader to produce They Shall Take Up Serpents, a documentary film on serpent handling in religious services. They continued their alliance and produced six additional documentaries. In addition to They Shall Take Up Serpents, Burton and Schrader also explore regional music in Buna and...
Dates: 1973 - 1974
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Thomas Burton and Jack Schrader Films

Thomas G. Burton and Thomas F. Headley Tapes

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0227
Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of the materials generated during the production of Thomas Burton’s and Thomas Headley’s three documentaries: Carson Springs: A Decade Later (1983), Following the Signs: A Way of Conflict (1987), and Traditional Springs: Violence in the South (1985). The collection documents the religious practices of two Pentecostal-Holiness churches in Cocke County, Tennessee: the Holiness Church of God in Jesus Name in Carson Springs and the Jesus Christ Apostolic...
Dates: 1973, 1983-1987 and undated
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Thomas G. Burton and Thomas F. Headley Tapes

Thomas G. Burton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0160
Scope and Contents The Thomas G. Burton Collection includes manuscripts, photographic prints and negatives, audio and video tapes. The manuscripts include dub sheets and tape transcripts, one copy of a songbook, documentation related to the Tennessee Traditions in Perspective Colloquium, and one booklet on Tennessee snake-handlers. The photographic prints and negatives focus on serpent-handling church services in West Virginia and Tennessee. The audio and video tapes cover serpent-handling church services in...
Dates: 1983 - 2001
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Thomas G. Burton Collection

J. B. Collins Photographs

 Collection — Box C (Small Photos): Series Series 2; Series Series 2, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: AppMs-0446
Scope and Contents The J. B. Collins Photographs collection consists of 79 black and white photographic images (4" x 5") on 20 contact sheets depicting serpent-handling church services at the Dolley Pond Church of God with Signs Following at Birchwood, Tennessee, and the Faith Tabernacle at LaFollette, Tennessee, circa 1945. Included are scenes of members being arrested at the Dolley Pond church and scenes at the Hamilton County Courthouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee.There is also a circa...
Dates: circa 1945-1947
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / J. B. Collins Photographs

Mike DuBose Photographs

 Collection — Box C (Small Photos): Series Series 2; Series Series 2
Identifier: AppMs-0429
Scope and Contents

The Mike DuBose Photographs collection consists of 21 black and white prints of serpent-handling practices in religious services in the Appalachian region taken by DuBose between 1984 and 1985. Church locations include Baxter, Kentucky, Canton, North Carolina, Carson Springs, Tennessee, and Jolo, West Virginia.

Dates: 1984-1985
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Mike DuBose Photographs

Charles Gunter Oral History Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0069
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of recordings of interviews conducted by Gunter's students in connection with his courses on social geography. The interview subjects are primarily from East Tennessee and often discuss topics of regional interest such as music, farm life, coal mining, and foodways. The collection also includes dub sheets for the first eight tapes, partial transcripts of tapes 2, 5 and 6, and summaries of interviews.

Dates: 1974-1996
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Charles Gunter Oral History Collection

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