Research Catalog

Title

Kincraft : the making of Black evangelical sociality / Todne Thomas.

Author

Thomas, Todne

Publication

• Durham : Duke University Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xi, 252 pages; 23 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people

Uniform Title

Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.

Subject

• African American evangelists
• Women evangelists > United States
• African American women > Religious life
• African American women in church work
• Evangelicalism > Social aspects > United States
• Community development > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Race relations > Religious aspects > Christianity
• African Americans > Religious life > Christianity
• Black theology
• Evangelicalism > Social aspects
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1. Contextualizing the Social Dimensions of a Black Evangelical Religious Movement -- On "Godly Family" and "Family Roots" : Creating Kinship Worlds -- Moving Against the Grain: The Evangelism of T. Michael Flowers in the Segregated US South -- Black like Me? Or Christian like Me? : Black Evangelicals, Ethnicity, and Church Family -- Part 2. Scenes of Black Evangelical Spiritual Kinship in Practice -- Bible Study, Fraternalism, and the Making of Interpretive Community -- Churchwomen and the Incorporation of Church and Home -- Black Evangelicals, "the Family," and Confessional Intimacy.

Call Number

Sc E 22-688

ISBN

• 9781478010654
• 1478010657
• 9781478011781
• 1478011785

LCCN

2020027296

OCLC

1157999199

Author

Thomas, Todne, author.

Title

Kincraft : the making of Black evangelical sociality / Todne Thomas.

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people

Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Other Form:

Online version: Thomas, Todne Kincraft Durham : Duke University Press, 2021. 9781478013129 (DLC) 2020027297

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-688