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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838242903321

Autore

Day Keri

Titolo

Azusa Reimagined [[electronic resource] ] : A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic Belonging

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Redwood City, : Stanford University Press, 2022

ISBN

1-5036-3163-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Encountering Traditions

Disciplina

289.930979494

Soggetti

African Americans - California - Los Angeles - Religion

Capitalism - Religious aspects - Christianity

Democracy - Religious aspects - Christianity

Pentecostalism - United States - History - 20th century

Racism - Religious aspects - Christianity

Revivals - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century

RELIGION / Christianity / History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction SUBVERSIVE BEGINNINGS -- 1 CAPITALIST VISIONS OF PENTECOST -- 2 TOPPLING WHITE EVANGELICAL AND MARKET ORTHODOXIES -- 3 BLACK FEMALE GENIUS -- 4 AZUSA’S EROTIC LIFE -- 5 LAWLESSNESS A Critique of American Democracy -- 6 A DEMOCRACY TO COME Embracing Azusa’s Political Moodiness -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In Azusa Reimagined, Keri Day explores how the Azusa Street Revival of 1906, out of which U.S. Pentecostalism emerged, directly critiqued America's distorted capitalist values and practices at the start of the twentieth century. Employing historical research, theological analysis, and critical theory, Day demonstrates that Azusa's religious rituals and traditions rejected the racial norms and profit-driven practices that many white Christian communities gladly embraced. Through its sermons and social practices, the Azusa community critiqued racialized conceptions of citizenship that guided early capitalist endeavors such as world fairs and expositions. Azusa also envisioned deeper



democratic practices of human belonging and care than the white nationalist loyalties early U.S. capitalism encouraged. In this lucid work, Day makes Azusa's challenge to this warped economic ecology visible, showing how Azusa not only offered a radical critique of racial capitalism but also offers a way for contemporary religious communities to cultivate democratic practices of belonging against the backdrop of late capitalism's deep racial divisions and material inequalities.