Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel

by Glenn Hinson

Book Overview

Glenn Hinson focuses on a single gospel program and offers a major contribution to our understanding not just of gospel but of the nature of religious experience.

A key feature of African American performance is the layering of performative voices and the constant shifting of performative focus. To capture this layering, Hinson demonstrates how all the parts of the gospel program work together to shape a single whole, joining speech and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812217179
• ISBN13: 9780812217179
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.7"