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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810367603321

Autore

Crumbley Deidre Helen <1947->

Titolo

Saved and sanctified [[electronic resource] ] : the rise of a storefront church in Great Migration Philadelphia / / Deidre Helen Crumbley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2012

ISBN

0-8130-4379-4

0-8130-4355-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

The history of African American religions

Disciplina

289.95

Soggetti

African Americans - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Religion

Philadelphia (Pa.) Church history

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

Call -- City tales -- Saints tales -- Becoming saints -- Family -- Response.

Sommario/riassunto

During the early twentieth century, millions of southern blacks moved north to escape the violent racism of the Jim Crow South and to find employment in urban centers. They transplanted not only themselves but also their culture; in the midst of this tumultuous demographic transition emerged a new social institution, the storefront sanctified church.  Saved and Sanctified focuses on one such Philadelphia church that was started above a horse stable, was founded by a woman born sixteen years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and is still active today. ""The Church,"" as it is