Papers by Todne Thomas
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New Directions in Spiritual Kinship, 2017
In this ethnographic chapter, Thomas explores the spiritual kinship ties created by Afro Caribbea... more In this ethnographic chapter, Thomas explores the spiritual kinship ties created by Afro Caribbean and African American evangelical churchgoers in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Thomas argues that the black evangelicals of two congregations (Corinthian Bible Chapel and Dixon Bible Chapel) use spiritual kinship—discourses and practices of spiritually defined relatedness—as a means of creating a familial belonging that can traverse ethnic identity boundaries. Nonetheless, Thomas also illustrates that the spiritual kinship produced by black evangelicals, like ethnicity, generates its own social, moral, and institutional hierarchies and differences.
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Anthropology and Humanism, 2016
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New Directions in Spiritual Kinship
This introduction examines the significance of spiritual kinship, or kinship reckoned in relation... more This introduction examines the significance of spiritual kinship, or kinship reckoned in relation to the divine, in creating myriad forms of affiliations between and among Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Rather than confining the study of spiritual kinship to Christian godparenthood or presuming its disappearance in relation to secularism, the authors argue that the study of spiritual and sacred kinship generates a new starting point for comparative discussions of kinship and religion. This includes investigations of how religious practitioners enact and contest spiritual and sacred solidarities through ritual, discursive, and ethical practices across social domains, networks, and trans/national collectives.
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Anthropology and Humanism , 2016
Anthropologists have framed ethnographers as participant-observers, strangers, and friends and ha... more Anthropologists have framed ethnographers as participant-observers, strangers, and friends and have written about ethnographic research encounters in terms of the productive spaces between researchers and research collaborators. Informed by my review of research literature on ethnographic relationships, my application of de-colonial, feminist, and postmodern research methodologies, and my experience of being reconstituted as a "[church] sister" by the members of an Afro-West Indian and African American evangelical church association, I argue that characterizations of research encounters by research collaborators hold important implications for ethnographic research and writing. [ethnographic relationships, kinship, methodology]
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This volume examines the significance of spiritual kinship—or kinship reckoned in relation to the... more This volume examines the significance of spiritual kinship—or kinship reckoned in relation to the divine—in creating myriad forms of affiliations among Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Rather than confining the study of spiritual kinship to Christian godparenthood or presuming its disappearance in light of secularism, the authors investigate how religious practitioners create and contest sacred solidarities through ritual, discursive, and ethical practices across social domains, networks, and transnational collectives. This book’s theoretical conversations and rich case studies hold value for scholars of anthropology, kinship, and religion.
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