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

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srz019

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