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Hinson, Glenn, Fire in my bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American gospel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2000, Pp. x + 408. Pb. $24.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2003

Cheryl Wharry
Cheryl Wharry
Affiliation:
Department of Language & Literature, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia 31907, wharry_cheryl@colstate.edu
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Glenn Hinson, in Fire in my bones, creatively and accurately captures the essence of Holy Spirit influence on belief and experience among members of the “spirit-filled” or “sanctified” African American community. Much ethnographic work tends to highlight researchers' analytical and supposedly “objective” reports of observed behavior; Hinson, however, takes an ingenious phenomenological approach in which the lived selves of sanctified members are presented through their own individual voices. To the author's credit, attempts to “shape” or refine participants' expressions, observations, analyses, summaries, and so on do not appear in this work.

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Language in Society , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 289 - 292
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© 1971 Cambridge University Press

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