The rise to respectability [electronic resource] : race, religion, and the Church of God in Christ / Calvin White, Jr.
Material type: TextPublication details: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2012.Description: xii, 186 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 289.9/4 23
- BX7056.A4 W45 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the roots of the study -- In the beginning, there stood two: the reconstruction of African American religion and the birth of the Black holiness movement -- We will let the courts speak for us: controversy within the holiness movement and the excommunication of a saint -- Mason told us not to fight: religion, respectability, and conscientious objectorship -- Come over to Macedonia and help: sanctification disguised as racial uplift -- Memphis, the hope of a promised land: the achievement of respectability for the Church of God in Christ -- "Dar he": COGIC and the national civil rights movement -- Afterword: wandering in the wilderness.
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