Pentecostal insight in a segregated US city: designs for vitality

"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...

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Main Author: Klaits, Frederick (Author)
Contributors: Chatman, LaShekia (Contributor) ; Richbart, Michael (Contributor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London New York Oxford New Delhi Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2022
In:Year: 2022
Series/Journal:New directions in the anthropology of christianity
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Buffalo, NY / Freie Christengemeinde / Catechesis / Social inequality / Racial question
IxTheo Classification:KBQ North America
KDG Free church
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Summary:"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 and the moral perils from which they hope to be redeemed. 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"--
ISBN:1350175889