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Fire in my bones : transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American gospel / Glenn Hinson in collaboration with saints from a host of churches ; photographs by Roland L. Freeman.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hinson, Glenn.
- Series:
- Contemporary ethnography.
- Contemporary ethnography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American public worship.
- Experience (Religion).
- African Americans--Religion.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Ethnography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (419 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Glenn Hinson focuses on a single gospel program and offers a major contribution to our understanding not just of gospel but of the nature of religious experience. A key feature of African American performance is the layering of performative voices and the constant shifting of performative focus. To capture this layering, Hinson demonstrates how all the parts of the gospel program work together to shape a single whole, joining speech and song, performer and audience, testimony, prayer, preaching, and singing into a seamless and multifaceted service of worship. Personal stories ground the discussion at every turn, while experiential testimony fuels the unfolding arguments. Fire in My Bones is an original exploration of experience and belief in a community of African American Christians, but it is also an exploration of African American aesthetics, the study of belief, and the ethnographic enterprise.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Chapter 1. Seeking Understanding
- Chapter 2. Belief, Knowledge, and Experience
- Chapter 3. Experiencing the Holy
- Chapter 4. A Conversation
- Chapter 5. Beginnings
- Chapter 6. Scripture
- Chapter 7. Prayer
- Chapter 8. A Conversation
- Chapter 9. Song
- Chapter 10. Praise
- Chapter 11. Welcome
- Chapter 12. Response
- Chapter 13. The Emcee
- Chapter 14. Format
- Chapter 15. Purpose
- Chapter 16. False Purpose
- Chapter 17. Elevation
- Chapter 18. Invitation
- Chapter 19. Benediction
- Appendix: Stepping Around Experience and the Supernatural
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-21191-2
- 9786613211910
- 0-8122-0301-1
- OCLC:
- 759158215
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