Miraculous mothers, empowered sons, dutiful daughters: Two generations of gender practices in a storefront sanctified church

Anthropology and Humanism

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 30-51

  Crumbley, Deidre ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Gender; Insider outsider; Religion; Sanctified church

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894924779     PISSN: 15599167     EISSN: 15481409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ahu.2007.32.1.30     Document Type: Article

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