Publication Type
Book Review
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2019
Abstract
Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber’s Joining the Choir is about how trust works in a transnational Ghanaian evangelical community, Evangel Ministries, between Chicago and Accra. The title is drawn from the opening anecdote in which Manglos-Weber speaks to a “colleague” at church. They are both in the choir together, and they talk about the difficulties of the interviewee’s life in Chicago as someone on leave from graduate school and driving a taxi. This anecdote showcases Manglos-Weber’s positionality as an ethnographer: she is among the trusted, a status that she deftly maneuvers within throughout the book. In so doing, Joining the Choir is not only about transnational migrants between Ghana and the United States and the religious infrastructure by which social networks among them are developed. Following Manglos-Weber on her research journey, it is also about the intellectual discipline that is required to conduct research in networks where only insiders are trusted.
Discipline
Religion
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Sociology of Religion
Volume
80
Issue
3
First Page
404
Last Page
405
ISSN
1069-4404
ISBN
9780190841072
Identifier
10.1093/socrel/srz019
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy E
Citation
TSE, Justin Kh.(2019). Joining the choir: Religious membership and social trust among transnational Ghanaians, by Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber. Sociology of Religion, 80(3), 404-405.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3137
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srz019