TY - BOOK ID - 7688697 TI - Jesus in America and Other Stories from the Field PY - 2009 SN - 0874217598 0874217601 9780874217605 9780874217599 PB - Utah State University, University Libraries DB - UniCat KW - Religious fiction, American KW - Parables KW - Ethnology KW - Protestants KW - American Literature KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Religious fiction, American. KW - Parables. KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - American religious fiction KW - Morganton (N.C.) KW - Social life and customs KW - Christians KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Exempla KW - Homiletical illustrations KW - Tales KW - Allegories KW - Fables KW - American fiction UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7688697 AB - 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. ER -