Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality

Kincraft

The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality
 
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
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Number of Volumes: Cloth over boards
 
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ISBN13:9781478010654
ISBN10:1478010657
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:264 pages
Size:229x152 mm
Weight:499 g
Language:English
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Short description:

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.

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In Kincraft Todne Thomas explores the internal dynamics of community life among black evangelicals, who are often overshadowed by white evangelicals and the common equation of the “Black Church” with an Afro-Protestant mainline. Drawing on fieldwork in an Afro-Caribbean and African American church association in Atlanta, Thomas locates black evangelicals at the center of their own religious story, presenting their determined spiritual relatedness as a form of insurgency. She outlines how church members cocreate themselves as spiritual kin through what she calls kincraft—the construction of one another as brothers and sisters in Christ. Kincraft, which Thomas traces back to the diasporic histories and migration experiences of church members, reflects black evangelicals' understanding of Christian familial connection as transcending racial, ethnic, and denominational boundaries in ways that go beyond the patriarchal nuclear family. Church members also use their spiritual relationships to navigate racial and ethnic discrimination within the majority-white evangelical movement. By charting kincraft's functions and significance, Thomas demonstrates the ways in which black evangelical social life is more varied and multidimensional than standard narratives of evangelicalism would otherwise suggest.

"Kincraft illustrates how Black evangelicals in the United States, drawing on their own Afro-diasporic orientations and sacred imaginaries, have worked to create their own mechanisms of spiritual and relational belonging against the fixed racial and social positionalities reinscribed by White evangelical culture. Moreover, Thomas’ exploration of the spiritual and racial kinship endemic to kincraft can and should be read furthermore as an example of Africana religious agency."
Table 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