Record Nr.

UNINA9910781560203321

Autore

Butler Anthea D. <1960->

Titolo

Women in the Church of God in Christ [[electronic resource] ] : making a sanctified world / / Anthea D. Butler

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

1-4696-0237-7

0-8078-8290-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

289.9/4

Soggetti

Women in church work

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. MOTHERHOOD; 2. CALLING; 3. MIGRATION; 4. PROHIBITIONS; 5. EDUCATION; 6. CIVICS; 7. CONVENTIONS; EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today. In this first major study of the church, Anthea Butler examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s. She finds that the sanctification, or spiritual purity, that these women sought earned them social power both in the church and in the black community.Offering rich, lively accounts of the activities of the Women's Department fo