Kincraft

Todne Thomas explores the internal dynamics of community life among black evangelicals and the ways the create spiritual relationships through the practice of kincraft—the construction of one another as brothers and sisters in Christ, partners in prayer, and spiritual mothers, fathers, and children.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
Part One. Contextualizing the Social Dimensions of a Black Evangelical Religious Movement
1. On "Godly Family" and "Family Roots": Creating Kinship Worlds  29
2. Moving against the Grain: The Evangelism of T. Michael Flowers in the Segregated US South  57
3. Black like Me? Or Christian like Me? Black Evangelicals, Ethnicity, and Church Family  83
Part Two. Scenes of Black Evangelical Spiritual Kinship in Practice
4. Bible Study, Fraternalism, and the Making of Interpretive Community  109
5. Churchwomen and the Incorporation of Church and Home  135
6. Black Evangelicals, "the Family," and Confessional Intimacy  167
Conclusion  199
Notes  213
Bibliography  229
Index  247