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Record Nr.

UNISA996212793003316

Autore

Gould Claudia

Titolo

Jesus in America and Other Stories from the Field / Claudia Gould ; foreword by Lee Haring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-87421-760-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (126 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

813/.6

Soggetti

Protestants - North Carolina

Ethnology

Parables

Religious fiction, American

Short stories, American

Electronic books.

Morganton (N.C.) Social life and customs Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Jesus in America -- A red crayon -- The mountains of spices -- Personal storage -- A moment of rapture -- Jack at the mercy seat.

Sommario/riassunto

Claudia Gould draws on fieldwork she conducted, as an anthropologist, in North Carolina, where she earlier spent large parts of her childhood, among a net of paternal relations. From that ethnography and from lifelong observation, she crafts stories that lay open the human heart and social complications of fundamentalist Christian belief. These stories and the compelling characters who inhabit them pull us into the complicated, variable core of religious experience among southern American Christians. Jesus in America, a perceptive work rich with cultural insight, is a singular addition to the growing genre of ethnographic fiction.