The Rise to Respectability : Race, Religion, and the Church of God in Christ /

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"The Rise to Respectability documents the history of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and examines its cultural and religious impact on African Americans and on the history of the South. It explores the ways in which Charlies Harrison Mason, the son of slaves and founder of COGIC, embraced a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: White, Calvin, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mason, C. H. > (Charles Harrison), > 1866-1961.
Church of God in Christ
Church of God in Christ.
Church of God in Christ > History.
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Schwarze
African Americans > Religion.
RELIGION > Messianic Judaism.
Noirs americains > Religion.
USA.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse.
United States > Church history.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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