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athis book of offers a degree of courageous moral engagement
that builds at least a tenuous bridge across the cultural
divide.a
--Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
a Nelson has given us a wonderfully intimate glimpse into how
rituals and belief animate the religious experiences of
black-southerners. This is an important work that will challenge
scholars of religion and race to rethink the nature of religious
experience.a
--American Journal of Sociology
"Nelson reveals the spiritual lives of black Southerners like
few authors before him. In beautifully written and theoretically
engaging prose, the ritual experience of low country worshippers
emerges in rich and compelling detail. This book will surely deepen
our understanding of power and authority in African American
religious life."
--Marla Frederick, author of "Between Sundays: Black Women and
Everyday Struggles of Faith"
"A very welcome book, not just for what we learn about one
African American congregation, but for its reminder of what it
means to see the world with religious eyes. Nelson's guided tour of
a Charleston, South Carolina, pentecostal AME church is both
enlightening and elegantly written. This book will shift the terms
of debate about the role of ritual and experience in American
religious life."
--Jim Spickard, University of Redlands
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 intothe tremendously
important yet still largely overlooked world of African American
religion as the faith is lived by ordinary believers.
For decades, scholars have been preoccupied with the relation
between Black Christianity, civil rights, and social activism.
Every Time I Feel the Spirit is about black religion as religion.
It focuses on the everyday experience of religion in the church,
congregants' relationships with God, and the role that God and
Satan play in congregants' lives--not only as objects of belief but
as actual agents. It explores the concepts of religious experience
and religious ritual, while emphasizing the attributions that
people make to the operation of spiritual forces and beings in
their lives.
Through interviews and field work, Nelson uncovers what
religious people themselves see as important about their faith
while extending and refining sociological understandings of
religious ritual and religious experience.
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