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

By: White, Calvin, 1973-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2012Description: xii, 186 pISBN: 9781610755108 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Mason, C. H. (Charles Harrison), 1866-1961 | Church of God in Christ -- History | African Americans -- Religion | United States -- Church historyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 289.9/4 LOC classification: BX7056.A4 | W45 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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