God and Blackness : Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church /
Abrams, Andrea C.
God and Blackness : Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church / Andrea C. Abrams. - 1 online resource (208 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Introduction: Sunday morning: anthropology of a church -- The first Afrikan way: method and context -- Situating the self: becoming Afrikan in America -- "Who I am and whose I am": race and religion -- Ebony affluence: Afrocentric middle classness -- Eve's positionality: Afrocentric and womanist ideologies -- Conclusion: The benediction: Ashe Ashe Ashe O.
Open Access
Offers an ethnographic study of blackness as it is understood within a specific community--the First Afrikan Presbyterian Church, a middle class Afrocentric congregation located in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, the author examines how this community has employed Afrocentrism and black theology as a means of negotiation the unreconciled natures of thoughts and ideals that are part of being both black and American.
9780814705254
Schwarze
Schwarze Theologie
Kirchengemeinde
Ethnische Identität
Black theology.
African Americans--Religion.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
RELIGION--Christianity--Presbyterian.
Black theology.
African Americans--Religion.
USA
Atlanta, Ga.
Electronic books.
God and Blackness : Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church / Andrea C. Abrams. - 1 online resource (208 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Introduction: Sunday morning: anthropology of a church -- The first Afrikan way: method and context -- Situating the self: becoming Afrikan in America -- "Who I am and whose I am": race and religion -- Ebony affluence: Afrocentric middle classness -- Eve's positionality: Afrocentric and womanist ideologies -- Conclusion: The benediction: Ashe Ashe Ashe O.
Open Access
Offers an ethnographic study of blackness as it is understood within a specific community--the First Afrikan Presbyterian Church, a middle class Afrocentric congregation located in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, the author examines how this community has employed Afrocentrism and black theology as a means of negotiation the unreconciled natures of thoughts and ideals that are part of being both black and American.
9780814705254
Schwarze
Schwarze Theologie
Kirchengemeinde
Ethnische Identität
Black theology.
African Americans--Religion.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
RELIGION--Christianity--Presbyterian.
Black theology.
African Americans--Religion.
USA
Atlanta, Ga.
Electronic books.