Pentecostal Insight In A Segregated Us City

Author : Frederick Klaits McLean,Shay-Akil McLean,Michael Richbart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 1350175897

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Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated U.S. City by Frederick Klaits McLean,Shay-Akil McLean,Michael Richbart Pdf

"This book compares how Pentecostal believers in majority white and African American churches in Buffalo, New York receive insights from God about their own and others' life circumstances. The book shows that through their worship, believers come to know that they are personally connected in various ways to God and to one another, and that they must be redeemed from sinfulness and other moral perils. In ways that reflect their differing positions in the American racial and class formation, these insights enhance believers' personal capacities together with their abilities to care for others, shaping their divergent political outlooks in the process."--

Author : Frederick Klaits,Michael Richbart,LaShekia Chatman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350175914

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Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City by Frederick Klaits,Michael Richbart,LaShekia Chatman Pdf

In Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated U.S. City, Frederick Klaits compares how members of one majority white and two African American churches in Buffalo, New York receive knowledge from God about their own and others' life circumstances. In the Pentecostal Christian faith, believers say that they acquire divinely inspired insights by developing a “relationship with God.” But what makes these insights appear necessary? This book offers a novel approach to this question, arguing that the inspirations believers receive from God lead them to take critical stances on what they regard as ordinary understandings of space, time, care, and personal value. Using a shared Pentecostal language, believers occupying different positions within racial, class, and gender formations reflect in divergent ways on God's designs. In the process, they engage critically with late liberal imaginaries of eventfulness and vitality to envision possibilities of life in a highly unequal society. This text incorporates commentaries on Klaits' ethnography by LaShekia Chatman and Michael Richbart, junior scholars who have also studied and been part of Pentecostal communities in Buffalo.

Author : Henni Alava
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350175839

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Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda by Henni Alava Pdf

Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Ugandasheds critical light on the complex and unstable relationship between Christianity and politics, and peace and war. Drawing on long-running ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda's largest religious communities, it maps the tensions and ironies found in the Catholic and Anglican Churches in the wake of war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. It shows how churches' responses to the war were enabled by their embeddedness in local communities. Yet churches' embeddedness in structures of historical violence made their attempts to nurture peace liable to compound conflict. At the heart of the book is the Acholi concept of anyobanyoba, 'confusion', which depicts an experienced sense of both ambivalence and uncertainty, a state of mixed-up affairs within community and an essential aspect of politics in a country characterized by the threat of state violence. Foregrounding vulnerability, the book advocates 'confusion' as an epistemological and ethical device, and employs it to meditate on how religious believers, as well as researchers, can cultivate hope amid memories of suffering and on-going violence.

Author : Eric Hoenes del Pinal,Marc Roscoe Loustau,Kristin Norget
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350228191

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Mediating Catholicism by Eric Hoenes del Pinal,Marc Roscoe Loustau,Kristin Norget Pdf

This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization. Case studies examine Catholic practices in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia, and Africa, providing a truly comparative, de-centred representation of global Catholicism. Illustrating the vibrancy and heterogeneity of Catholicism world-wide, the book also examines how media work to sustain larger global Catholic imaginaries.

Author : Stephen D. Glazier
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : PSU:000044450106

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Anthropology of Religion by Stephen D. Glazier Pdf

Chapters by expert contributors overview the most significant topics and trends in the anthropology of religion.

Author : Erik Varden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472979452

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Entering the Twofold Mystery by Erik Varden Pdf

Erik Varden published The Shattering of Loneliness in 2018. Now, with the world in the throes of uncertainty and turbulence, he helps us interpret the signs of the times, convinced that the perennial experience of monks and nuns has much to teach us. The principles of monasticism have become attractive to many, awakened as we are to the importance of integrity, the pursuit of peace, asceticism as a path to freedom, hospitality and contemplative seeing. After a deeply personal introduction, Varden invites us to consider what makes a monk. He then takes us on a pilgrimage through the Church's year, drawing on Scripture, tradition and literary and religious figures of our time. Varden lets the reader discover the generous breadth and depth of a monk's outlook on life. In so doing he provides inspiration, enjoyment and enlightenment in equal measure.

Author : Murtala Ibrahim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350282322

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Sensational Piety by Murtala Ibrahim Pdf

Grounded in anthropological comparison and the concept of materiality, this book offers an in-depth ethnographic study of the similarities and differences among various forms of religious practices in a Pentecostal Church (Christ Embassy) and an Islamic group (NASFAT) in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. Scholarship in this area tends to focus on inter-religious contestations and conflicts; however, this book proposes that another dynamic is unfolding between Christians and Muslims that is characterised by conviviality, interfaith joint action programmes, mutual influences and even the exchange of religious forms. The comparative approach reveals that, notwithstanding the seemingly opposed worldviews and divergences between Muslims and Christians, they all face similar challenges and apply similar techniques for meeting the challenges posed by the precarious Nigerian urban environment. It is through practices – especially those conducted in (semi-) public settings – that people from different religious persuasions define, encroach on and feel the weight of each other's presence.

Author : William C. Olsen,Walter E. A. van Beek
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253017505

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Evil in Africa by William C. Olsen,Walter E. A. van Beek Pdf

William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in African cultural and social contexts. These studies of evil entanglements take local and national histories and identities into account, including state politics and civil war, religious practices, Islam, gender, and modernity.

Author : Mashama Bailey,John O. Morisano
Publisher : Lorena Jones Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984856203

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Black, White, and The Grey by Mashama Bailey,John O. Morisano Pdf

A story about the trials and triumphs of a Black chef from Queens, New York, and a White media entrepreneur from Staten Island who built a relationship and a restaurant in the Deep South, hoping to bridge biases and get people talking about race, gender, class, and culture. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GARDEN & GUN • “Black, White, and The Grey blew me away.”—David Chang In this dual memoir, Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano take turns telling how they went from tentative business partners to dear friends while turning a dilapidated formerly segregated Greyhound bus station into The Grey, now one of the most celebrated restaurants in the country. Recounting the trying process of building their restaurant business, they examine their most painful and joyous times, revealing how they came to understand their differences, recognize their biases, and continuously challenge themselves and each other to be better. Through it all, Bailey and Morisano display the uncommon vulnerability, humor, and humanity that anchor their relationship, showing how two citizens commit to playing their own small part in advancing equality against a backdrop of racism.

Author : Doug Merlino
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781608192151

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The Hustle by Doug Merlino Pdf

Chronicles a social experiment through which wealthy white and disadvantaged African-American basketball athletes were put together to form a successful youth team that also enabled the black players to attend private school, revealing what became of them years later.

Author : Ruby E. Rodriguez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:W255715

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The Role of Religious Institutions in the Incorporation of Latin American and Latino/a Immigrants and Migrants in the North American Midwest by Ruby E. Rodriguez Pdf

Author : George D. Chryssides
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350190900

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Jehovah’s Witnesses by George D. Chryssides Pdf

What would happen if I accepted an invitation to Bible Study from Jehovah's Witnesses? What would attending a Kingdom Hall meeting involve? And if I invited door-knocking Witnesses into my home? This book introduces Jehovah's Witnesses without assuming prior knowledge of the Watch Tower organization. After outlining the Society's origins and history, the book explains their key beliefs and practices by taking the reader through the process of the seeker who makes initial contact with Witnesses, and progresses to take instruction and become a baptized member. The book then explores what is involved in being a Witness – congregational life, lifestyle, rites of passage, their understanding of the Bible and prophetic expectations. It examines the various processes and consequences of leaving the organization, controversies that have arisen in the course of its history, and popular criticisms. Discussion is given to the likelihood of reforms within the organization, such as its stance on blood transfusions, the role of women and new methods of meeting and evangelizing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author : Tanya Riches
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004400276

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Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations by Tanya Riches Pdf

Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations: (Re)imagining Identity in the Spirit conducts ethnographic research into three Australian Pentecostal congregations with Aboriginal senior leadership pastor couples.

Author : Elton H. Weaver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498595179

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Bishop Charles H. Mason in the Age of Jim Crow by Elton H. Weaver Pdf

Bishop Charles H. Mason in the Age of Jim Crow profiles the life and career of Charles Harrison Mason. Mason was the founder of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), which from its Memphis roots, grew into the most significant black Pentecostal denomination in the United States, with profound theological and political ramifications for poor and working-class black Memphians. Bishop Charles H. Mason in the Age of Jim Crow is grounded in the history of the Jim Crow era. The book traces the origins of COGIC in Memphis; it reveals just how Mason’s new black Pentecostal denomination grew, gained social and political power, and earned a permanent place in Memphis’s black religious pantheon. This book tells how a son of slaves transformed a rural migrant movement into an urban phenomenon, how unusual religious demonstrations exemplified infrapolitical religious protests, and how these rituals of resistance changed black lives and helped strengthen and sustain blacks fighting for freedom in segregated Memphis. The author reveals why Charles H. Mason was an important pre-civil rights religious leader who laid the groundwork for integrated churches.

Author : Ramah McKay
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822372196

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Medicine in the Meantime by Ramah McKay Pdf

In Mozambique, where more than half of the national health care budget comes from foreign donors, NGOs and global health research projects have facilitated a dramatic expansion of medical services. At once temporary and unfolding over decades, these projects also enact deeply divergent understandings of what care means and who does it. In Medicine in the Meantime, Ramah McKay follows two medical projects in Mozambique through the day-to-day lives of patients and health care providers, showing how transnational medical resources and infrastructures give rise to diverse possibilities for work and care amid constraint. Paying careful attention to the specific postcolonial and postsocialist context of Mozambique, McKay considers how the presence of NGOs and the governing logics of the global health economy have transformed the relations—between and within bodies, medical technologies, friends, kin, and organizations—that care requires and how such transformations pose new challenges for ethnographic analysis and critique.