Ordinary People: An Ethnographic Portrait of a Black Baptist Congregation's Faithful Performance of Religion
This dissertation reconsiders the importance of the preacher, the music, and the frenzy (a construction introduced by W.E.B. Du Bois in his 1903 classic, The Souls of Black Folk) as core concepts for understanding African American religious practices in the 21st century as observed in a predominantl...
Main Author: | Sheehan, Jeffrey W. |
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Other Authors: | Gregory F. Barz |
Format: | Others |
Language: | en |
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VANDERBILT
2008
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Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-12032008-163240/ |
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