Making African American Homeplaces in Rural Virginia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2277616
AutoresSascha L Goluboff (Washington and Lee University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen39
Número3
Páginas368-394
Fecha de publicación2011-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1352.2011.01198.x
OpenAlexW2107040940
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas42

In this article, I propose that anthropologists of Christianity broaden their understanding of emotion to include intense attachments to home and kin as central to cultivating faith. I use examples from my research with African Americans who continue to live on land purchased by their emancipated ancestors and attend a United Methodist church established by those same ancestors in rural Western Virginia. I suggest that theoretical attention to this worldly home, as well as to God, is key to understanding the process of belief. It opens up the possibility of seeing emotional connection as a catalyst for political awareness and change, and it also brings gender and generational relations into sharp focus. Ultimately, I argue that the maintenance of such African American religious and secular homeplaces works to challenge the legacies of racism in the rural South

African american · Archaeology · Black church · Christianity · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Faith · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies