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Kincraft : The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality /

"In Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality Todne Thomas explores the interiority of black evangelical community life-a religious constituency often overshadowed by a white evangelical majority and the common equation of the "black Church" with an Afro-Protestant mainline....

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Main Author: Thomas, Todne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"In Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality Todne Thomas explores the interiority of black evangelical community life-a religious constituency often overshadowed by a white evangelical majority and the common equation of the "black Church" with an Afro-Protestant mainline. Informed by her fieldwork in an Afro-Caribbean and African American church association in the Atlanta metropolitan area, Thomas argues that church members co-create themselves as spiritual kin through the conceptual and performative labor of kincraft. Thomas attributes this kincraft-church members' constructions of one another as "brothers and sisters in Christ," "spiritual mothers," "spiritual fathers," "spiritual children,"and "prayer partners"-to religious and diasporic influences"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9781478013129