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

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 186 p.
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Table of 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.