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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778715503321

Autore

Sanders Cheryl Jeanne

Titolo

Saints in exile [[electronic resource] ] : the Holiness-Pentecostal experience in African American religion and culture / / Cheryl J. Sanders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999, c1996

ISBN

0-19-535133-9

0-585-25713-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Religion in America series

Disciplina

289.9

Soggetti

African American Holiness church members

African American Pentecostals

United States Church history 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1999."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: ""In the World, but Not of It""; African Religious Traditions in the Sanctified Church; Christianity and Social Ethics among the Slaves; Emergence of the Sanctified Church as a Christian Renewal Movement; 1 The Sanctified Churches and Christian Reform: Confronting the Barriers of Race, Sex, and Class; Configurations of Race and Denomination in Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic Churches; ""Zion's Hill"": Black Holiness in the Church of God; William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival; Participation of Women and the Poor in the Holiness-Pentecostal Movement

2 Refuge and Reconciliation in a Holiness CongregationPastoral Leadership at Third Street Church of God, 1910-1995; Sunday Worship; The Urban Prayer Breakfast; 3 ""In the Beauty of Holiness"": Ethics and Aesthetics in the Worship of the Saints; Basic Elements of Sanctified Worship; Saved, Sanctified, and Spirit-Baptized; Static and Ecstatic Forms of Spirit Possession; Worship and Exile; The Holy Dance: Shouting; The Chant of Affirmation: ""Yes, Lord!""; Liturgical Attendants Wearing White; Inclusion of Welcome and Announcements as Liturgy; Ecstasy and Epistemology: ""Having Church""

4 Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Gospel Music and Popular Culture in the United StatesEuropean Protestant Hymnody; Negro



Spirituals; The Blues; Jazz; Rhythm and Blues: Soul Music; Gospel Rap; Classical Music; Gospel Musicians in the Sanctified Tradition; 5 Resistance, Rebellion, and Reform: The Collegiate Gospel Choir and the Black Clergy Caucus; Gospel Music and Black Identity on Campus; The Black Clergy Caucus Movement in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana); 6 Black Intellectuals and Storefront Religion in the Age of Black Consciousness

Black Intellectuals and Black Religion in Exilic Perspective: A Typology of TraditionsAfro-Pentecostal Thought; 7 The Church in Exile: Vital Signs outside the Mainstream; Summary: The Dialectics of Exilic Existence; Toward an Exilic Ecclesiology; The Ethics of Holiness and Unity; Spirituality and Christian Formation; Biblical and Ecumenical Witnesses of the Gospel Message; Conclusion: Exile and Homecoming; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

Saints in Exile studies, from an insider's perspective, the worship practices and social ethics of the African American family of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic churches known collectively as the Sanctified Church. Cheryl Sanders identifies the theme of exile, both as an idea and an experience, as the key to understanding the dialectical nature of African American religious and intellectual life, that W.E.B. Du Bois called ""double-conscious."" Sanders's saints in exile are a people who see themselves as ""in the world but not of it""; their marginalized status is both self-imposed and i