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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781478013129 |