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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453034903321

Autore

White Calvin <1973->

Titolo

The rise to respectability [[electronic resource] ] : race, religion, and the Church of God in Christ / / Calvin White, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, : University of Arkansas Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-89121-2

1-61075-510-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Disciplina

289.9/4

Soggetti

African Americans - Religion

Electronic books.

United States Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.