The rise to respectability
White, Calvin, 1973-
The rise to respectability race, religion, and the Church of God in Christ / [electronic resource] : Calvin White, Jr. - Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (239 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
9781610755108 1610755103
Church of God in Christ.
Electronic books.
The rise to respectability race, religion, and the Church of God in Christ / [electronic resource] : Calvin White, Jr. - Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (239 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
9781610755108 1610755103
Church of God in Christ.
Electronic books.