Presents an essay review of several books including `The Sanctified South: John Larkin and the Holiness Movement,' by J. Lawrence Brasher, `Appalachian Mountain Religion, A History,' by Deborah Vansau McCauley, `Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky,' by David L. Kimbrough, and `Our Southern Zion: A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990,' by Erskine Clarke.