God and Blackness : Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church /

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Offers an ethnographic study of blackness as it is understood within a specific community--the First Afrikan Presbyterian Church, a middle class Afrocentric congregation located in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, the autho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abrams, Andrea C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Schwarze
Schwarze Theologie
Kirchengemeinde
Ethnische Identität
Black theology.
African Americans > Religion.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christianity > Presbyterian.
USA
Atlanta, Ga.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Sunday morning: anthropology of a church
  • The first Afrikan way: method and context
  • Situating the self: becoming Afrikan in America
  • "Who I am and whose I am": race and religion
  • Ebony affluence: Afrocentric middle classness
  • Eve's positionality: Afrocentric and womanist ideologies
  • Conclusion: The benediction: Ashe Ashe Ashe O.

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