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Todne Thomas explores the internal dynamics of community life among black evangelicals and the ways the create spiritual relationships through the practice of kincraft—the construction of one another as brothers and sisters in Christ, partners in prayer, and spiritual mothers, fathers, and children.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
Todne Thomas explores the internal dynamics of community life among black evangelicals and the ways the create spiritual relationships through the practice of kincraft—the construction of one another as brothers and sisters in Christ, partners in prayer, and spiritual mothers, fathers, and children.
