ENGLISH

God and blackness: race, gender, and identity in a middle class Afrocentric church

By Abrams , Andrea C

Book information

Publisher
New York University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780814705230, 9780814705247, 9780814705254, 0814705251
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1148960 bytes)
Pages
\196
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
African Americans--Religion;Black theology;African

Description

Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, Andrea C. Abrams examines how this community has employed Afrocentrism and black theology as a means of negotiating the unreconciled natures of thoughts and ideals that are part of being both black and American. Acknowledgments Introduction: Sunday Morning: Anthropology of a Church 1. The First Afrikan Way: Method and Context 2. Situating the Self: Becoming Afrikan in America 3. "Who I Am and Whose I Am": Race and Religion 4. Ebony Affluence: Afrocentric Middle Classness 5. Eve's Positionality: Afrocentric and Womanist Ideologies Conclusion: The Benediction: Ashe Ashe Ashe O References Index About the Author

Similar books