Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American ChurchNYU Press, 2005 - 222 pages Dreams and visions, prophetic words from God about "dusty souls," speaking in tongues while "in the spirit"—narratives of these and similar events comprise the heart of Every Time I Feel the Spirit. This in-depth study of a Black congregation in Charleston, South Carolina provides a window into the tremendously important yet still largely overlooked world of African American religion as the faith is lived by ordinary believers. |
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... words of instruction as to what to pray for, and then sent us on our way around the perimeter of the lake. He directed us to walk “either by yourself or in twos and threes.” So off we went, mostly in one big clump that thinned out when ...
... word from God about “dusty souls,” the speaking in tongues and mild convulsive movements while “in the spirit”—I would hear stories of countless similar episodes during my interviews and witness firsthand many of the same actions during ...
... word from the Lord” for me and my research in the church. “The book you are going to write,” he prophesied, “is going to touch a lot of people and reveal to the white community the depth of the relationship between black Christians and ...
... word “church,” one can easily be misled into the idea that to study the Sunday morning worship service is to study the congregation directly (Goffman : ). There are several inadequacies in this belief. First and most ...
... words of a chapter title in Mays and Nicholson's landmark book The Negro's Church ( ), “Is the Negro Overchurched?” Observers had often commented on the large numbers of black churches relative to the population, even becoming ...
Contents
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Religious Experience and Ritual | 46 |
Do You Really Know Who God Is? | 64 |
On the Battlefield | 93 |
In Spirit and in Truth | 116 |
Sacrifice of Praise | 145 |
Race Class and Religion | 172 |
Belief Experience and Ritual | 192 |
Notes | 209 |
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Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Religious Experience and Ritual in an African ... Timothy Nelson No preview available - 2005 |