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Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City

Designs for Vitality

By: Frederick Klaits,Michael Richbart,LaShekia Chatman

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Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City

Designs for Vitality

By: Frederick Klaits,Michael Richbart,LaShekia Chatman

In Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated U.S. City, Frederick Klaits compares how members of one majority white and two African American churches in Buffalo, New York receive knowledge from God about their own and others' life circumstances. In the Pentecostal Christian faith, believers say that they acquire divinely inspired insights by developing a “relationship with God.” But what makes these insights appear necessary? This book offers a novel approach to this question, arguing that the inspirations believers receive from God lead them to take critical stances on what they regard as ordinary understandings of space, time, care, and personal value. Using a shared Pentecostal language, believers occupying different positions within racial, class, and gender formations reflect in divergent ways on God's designs. In the process, they engage critically with late liberal imaginaries of eventfulness and vitality to envision possibilities of life in a highly unequal society. This text incorporates commentaries on Klaits' ethnography by LaShekia Chatman and Michael Richbart, junior scholars who have also studied and been part of Pentecostal communities in Buffalo.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350175900

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Death in a Church of Life

Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDs

By: Frederick Klaits

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Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDs

By: Frederick Klaits

Klaits' work is not only a major contribution to the anthropology of religion and the social scientific literature on AIDS, but also a significant intervention into debates on how Africanists should approach their understandings of sociality and relatedness."--Matthew Engelke, author of A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church "The reader gets the sense of being a welcome party to a close conversation. Klaits sustains a direct, clear, humane, and jargon-free voice, and we come away with a radically challenged understanding of what it means in an African church to be 'born anew'."--Richard Werbner, author of Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family

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Univ of California Press

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0520259653

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9780520259652

Death in a Church of Life

Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDs

By: Frederick Klaits

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Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDs

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Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City

Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City

Death in a Church of Life

Death in a Church of Life

Death in a Church of Life

Death in a Church of Life

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