TY - BOOK AU - White,Calvin ED - Project Muse. TI - The rise to respectability: race, religion, and the Church of God in Christ SN - 9781610755108 PY - 2012/// CY - Fayetteville PB - University of Arkansas Press KW - Church of God in Christ KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781610755108/ ER -