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Kravchenko, Black Orthodox “Visual Piety”: People, Saints, and Icons in Pursuit of Reconciliation

Kravchenko, Elena. 2020. “Black Orthodox ‘Visual Piety’: People, Saints, Icons in Pursuit of Reconciliation.” Journal of Africana Religions 8(1): 84-121.    Abstract: African …

January 13, 2020 ndca-admin

Elisha, “Dancing the Word”

Elisha, Omri. 2018. “Dancing the Word: Techniques of embodied authority among Christian praise dancers in New York City.” American Ethnologist. 45(3): 380-391.  …

August 27, 2018 ndca-admin

Klaits, “Catch the Word”

Klaits, Frederick. 2017. “Catch the Word”: Violated contracts and prophetic confirmation in African American Pentecostalism. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7(3): 237-260. …

January 9, 2018 ndca-admin

Crawley, “Blackpentecostal Breath”

Crawley, Ashon T. 2016. Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility. New York: Fordham University Press.  Publisher’s Description: In this profoundly innovative book, …

January 9, 2018 ndca-admin

Klatis, “Insult and Insecurity”

Klaits, Frederick.  2016.  Insult and Insecurity: Discernment, Trust, and the Uncanny in Two US Pentecostal Communities.  Anthropology Quarterly 89(4): 1143-1173. …

February 24, 2017 ndca-admin

Doucet-Battle, “Sweet Salvation”

James Doucet-Battle, “Sweet Salvation: One Black Church, Diabetes Outreach, and Trust,” Transforming Anthropology, 24: 2 October 2016: 125–135 Abstract: Memories …

October 5, 2016 ndca-admin

Thomas, “Strangers, Friends, and Kin: Negotiated Recognition in Ethnographic Relationships”

Thomas, Todne. 2016. Strangers, Friends, and Kin: Negotiated Recognition in Ethnographic Relationships. Anthropology and Humanism 41(1):66-85. Abstract: Anthropologists have framed ethnographers as participant-observers, …

July 23, 2016 ndca-admin

Seeman, et al., “Blessing Unintended Pregnancy”

Seeman, Don, et al. 2016. Blessing Unintended Pregnancy: religion and the discourse of women’s agency in public health. MAT: Medicine Anthropology …

May 3, 2016 ndca-admin

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Sacred Heart - Naomi Haynes
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