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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... presence in the harbor and a silent testament to the war waged to defend that “peculiar institution” of slavery. Here in the Lowcountry, the boundary between past and present was more permeable than any place I had ever been, and it ...
... presence of Emanuel AME (the flagship church of the denomination in the South), to the small and struggling independent churches where sometimes fewer than a dozen of the faithful worshipped together on a Sunday morning. Still, the ...
... presence in the Southeast until , and it was under the leadership of Daniel Alexander Payne that the AME became the dominant religious institution among Charleston's African Americans. Born in Charleston in to free ...
... presence in South Carolina since that time. In , forty years after the denomination returned to the South, the U.S. census of religious bodies counted a national membership of almost , . South Carolina's two ...
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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 |