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