A Traveling Homeland Martin A. Brumbaugh Discussion questions and hymn suggestions

Discussion questions and hymn suggestions related to each chapter provide a highly usable resource for group study in celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the hymnal’s publication

MacLeitch examines the formation of new cultural identities as men and women negotiated challenges to long-established gendered practices and confronted and cocreated a new racialized discourses of difference

which are more humble than privileged

McHugh lets her emotionally open fieldwork reveal insight into the privilege of joining a community and a culture

A Traveling Homeland Martin A. Brumbaugh Discussion questions and hymn suggestionsA word conventionally imbued with melancholy meanings, "diaspora" has been used variously to describe the cataclysmic historical event of displacement, the subsequent geographical scattering of peoples, or the conditions of alienation abroad and yearning for an ancestral home. But as Daniel Boyarin writes, diaspora may be more constructively construed as a form of cultural hybridity or a mode of analysis. In A Traveling Homeland, he makes the case