Todne Thomas

Kincraft

The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality

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Produktbeschreibung

Todne Thomas explores the internal dynamics of community life among black evangelicals and the ways the create spiritual relationships through the practice of kincraft—the construction of one another as brothers and sisters in Christ, partners in prayer, and spiritual mothers, fathers, and children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781478010654
• ISBN-10: 1478010657
• Artikelnr.: 60743901

Autorenporträt

Todne Thomas is Assistant Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University and coeditor of New Directions in Spiritual Kinship: Sacred Ties across the Abrahamic Religions.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
Part One. Contextualizing the Social Dimensions of a Black Evangelical
Religious Movement
1. On "Godly Family" and "Family Roots": Creating Kinship Worlds  29
2. Moving against the Grain: The Evangelism of T. Michael Flowers in the
Segregated US South  57
3. Black like Me? Or Christian like Me? Black Evangelicals, Ethnicity, and
Church Family  83
Part Two. Scenes of Black Evangelical Spiritual Kinship in Practice
4. Bible Study, Fraternalism, and the Making of Interpretive Community  109
5. Churchwomen and the Incorporation of Church and Home  135
6. Black Evangelicals, "the Family," and Confessional Intimacy  167
Conclusion  199
Notes  213
Bibliography  229
Index  247