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- W257486586 abstract "Little Zion: A Church Baptized by Fire. By Shelly O'Foran. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xx + 266, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper) Shelly O'Foran is a superb writer. By that I mean not only that she strings words and phrases together in a compelling way, but also that she communicates her message well. But in addition - and this is significant for folklorists she integrates people's narratives about their folk religious life seamlessly within the explanatory contexts provided by scholars. Creating a pageturning scholarly work is no mean feat, but in Little Zion Shelly O'Foran has done just that. Her book is about the religious community surrounding Little Zion Baptist Church near Boligee, Alabama. She came to this study after the notorious rash of church burnings in 1995-1996, when scores of Southern churches, both black and white, were targeted. As a member of her Quaker fellowship, she traveled to Alabama to help rebuild Little Zion. While there, she felt inspired to ask the congregation's permission to do a history of the church. They agreed, and over a seven-year period (1996-2003) she conducted twenty-seven interviews with twenty-three narrators. Interviewing women, men, and children, young, middleaged, and senior, lay and ministerial, she covered a cross-section of the church and provided a good sense of its current and historical community. O'Foran's training in folklore shows through, not only in her choice of narrators and her thorough background library research, but also in how sensitively she constructs the setting for her material. Citing Amy Shuman and Charles Briggs (1993), she takes, as her organizing principle, the concept of tradition as an empowering cultural construct. But her main folkloristic concern in understanding Little Zion is the term folklife itself, in its full (and fulfilled) sense of the broadly and deeply contextualized comprehension of a community's society and culture. Her examination ranges from individuals to the community at large and even extends to mass-media coverage of how Little Zion's church was burned (one among eighty-seven black churches burned in 1996 alone). The reader simply does not come away from this book without a thorough sense of, and familiarity with, Little Zion Baptist Church. The element that truly elevates this book is the interview excerpts. As I suspect most folklorists would agree, finding the perfect interview excerpt can be elusive, just as elusive as finding that exceptional narrator. …" @default.
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