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- Title Taking Up Serpents
- Author David Kimbrough
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 252
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.
- Date 2021-11-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780865547988 / 086554798X
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9.08 x 6.14 x 0.76 in (23.06 x 15.60 x 1.93 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Appalachians
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Academic
- Library of Congress subjects Kentucky - Religious life and customs, Snake cults (Holiness churches) - Kentucky
- Dewey Decimal Code 289.9
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