Filled with the Spirit: Sexuality, Gender, and Radical Inclusivity in a Black Pentecostal Church Coalition
Ellen Lewin
Abstract
This book explores the worship and community central to the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries (TFAM), a coalition of predominantly African American, LGBT congregations with a Pentecostal style of worship. TFAM's central doctrine is "radical inclusivity," a commitment to embrace all those who might have been rejected or marginalized by mainstream black churches, but which has been expanded to include all persons regardless of race, sexuality, or religious background. The book looks closely at how TFAM worship is legitimated through the use of historical insignia of black culture, how it chall ... More
Keywords: LGBT religion, Pentecostalism, radical inclusivity, charisma, African American culture
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226537177 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: September 2018 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226537344.001.0001 |
