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+category:
+    - research
+title: Boston Miracle as a religious experience
+date: 2005-06-22T23:09:00
+---
+
+It was very interesting comment by Amy Farell—the important part of the
+Boston Miracle is that it was described so much with the religious
+subtone. City deeply immersed in the desperation, sin, and murder is
+saved by the mission of pastors, who redeem poor black teenagers! It’s a
+miracle!!!
+
+This comment reminded me also about my thoughts when reading
+`Christopher Winship’s article`_. In the latter readings of this article
+I saw quite strongly lack of critical attitude towards the object of his
+writing, yes the article looks to me like a hagiography_ of
+saint-to-be Eugene Rivers, Ray Hammond and police officers who talked
+with them. I am not saying that they are not incredibly interesting
+people (and maybe even candidates for sainthood; I am not a Catholic, so
+I am not knowledgeable in that matter), but that scholarly article is
+supposed to go deeper in its understanding. No, that’s too much—Winship
+does offer a lot of analysis and it goes certainly further than just to
+the description of the story. However, only later I found that there are
+many other opinions on the whole preachers’ collaboration with police
+and city government—namely that African-American (and I use this term
+deliberately, instead of preferred “black”) politicians viewed whole
+partnership as something between collaboration with enemy and expression
+of the endless naivity `(CommonWealth magazine, Fall 2003, p. 66)`_. I
+would love to look in my research to both of this debate. Although, I
+have a tendency to believe volunteering minister more than unsuccesful
+politican, I do not want to write yet another chapter in Eugene Rivers
+hagiology.
+
+.. _`Christopher Winship’s article`:
+    http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/winship/winshipp1.pdf
+.. _hagiography:
+    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagiography
+.. _`(CommonWealth magazine, Fall 2003, p. 66)`:
+    http://www.massinc.org/handler.cfm?type=1&target=2003%2D4/black_power.html