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The Father Divine ProjectMain Menu"Inside the Kingdom": The Evolution of the Peace Mission"A Greater Picture of ME": The Peace Mission ArchiveSince the late 1930s, Father Divine and his followers oversaw the documentation of the Peace Mission's own history and public pronouncements in a weekly newspaper, with wire and tape recordings, film and photography."I Know You Are God": A Database Documentary by Will LuersAbout The Father Divine ProjectWill Luers2f0376b300f2ff7145f4f5c8f06d3ab51e0c730dLeonard Norman Primianob55769156974a9bf4a4c74973f47ef4191206d21
Methodology: Reflexive Ethnography
12010-08-07T18:35:07-07:00Craig Dietrich2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a6893490104split2011-05-10T12:44:24-07:00Will Luers2f0376b300f2ff7145f4f5c8f06d3ab51e0c730dContemporary studies of American religious folklore place an emphasis on describing, analyzing, and comparing the culture of communities defined by their religious belief systems. Such communities can be defined through shared geography; age; gender; economy; occupation; leisure; and medical, political, or other beliefs. Religious folklore stresses the significances of aesthetic or artistic creativity and creation; historical process; the varieties of construction of mental, verbal, or material forms; and the enduring relationship and subtle balance between utility and creativity to such forms within cultures. The methodology of religious folklife includes exhaustive historical research using all available historical sources as well as field studies including ethnographic observation, thick description, and interviewing. This method and subsequent analyses allows people to speak for themselves using their own aesthetic and classificatory systems "" at times influenced by, but often outside of, reified institutional or intellectual structures to explain their religious beliefs and practices, and, thereby, influence those scholars who have been given the privilege to know, understand, appreciate, and learn from their religious lives. The argument being made here, growing out of the above perspective, is on the surface quite simple; namely, to study American religious communities fully, one needs to consider expressive culture first and foremost.
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1#d8d9af2010-10-08T18:13:01-07:00Craig Dietrich2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a6893490About The Father Divine ProjectWill Luers31plain2016-09-17T17:55:07-07:00Will Luers2f0376b300f2ff7145f4f5c8f06d3ab51e0c730d