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    Jesus in America and Other Stories from the Field
    Jesus in America and Other Stories from the Field
    Jesus in America and Other Stories from the Field
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    Jesus in America and Other Stories from the Field

    By Claudia Gould

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    Drawing on ethnographic field work she conducted among Christians in her home state of North Carolina, Claudia Gould crafts stories that lay open the human heart and social complications of fundamentalist belief. These stories and the compelling characters who inhabit them draw us into the complex essence of religious experience among southern American Christians.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUtah State University Press
    Release dateOct 9, 2009
    ISBN9780874217605
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      Jesus in America and Other Stories from the Field - Claudia Gould

      1985.

      Jesus in America

      Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?

      —Luke 2:49

      Jesse lived with his mother and his father took an interest. Or that’s what his mother said. He cain’t be here all the time, honey, but he takes an interest. When Jesse was little, he used to wish that he took more of an interest. He saw his father sometimes. He never just high-tailed it out, like some men would ‘a done. No, Dan, Jesse’s father, turned up every so often at the door, and he always seemed real glad to see them, and usually he brought a present. Some kind of a present.

      But…What Jesse used to wish when he was little was that he turned up sometimes on the right days. Jesse couldn’t remember him ever being there at Christmas, though his mama told him that he was there for Jesse’s first one—and he was just so proud of you! Jesse asked about that Christmas a lot when he was little, whether it snowed and if they’d had a big tree that stood on the floor instead of a little one you sat on the table, like they always had nowadays. And who else was there—Did Grandma come? And whether he could sit up at the table and chew his Christmas dinner already or if somebody had to hold him in his lap and feed him soft stuff with a spoon. He wanted to be able to make a picture in his mind of what it was like, that first Christmas, when he was a little baby. If he could make a good enough picture, he would be able to remember it. Sometimes he thought he did, but then he’d think he was just remembering the picture in his mind. So that was

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