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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	White, Calvin, 1973-
Imprint:	Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Mason, C. H. -- (Charles Harrison), -- 1866-1961. Mason, C. H. -- (Charles Harrison), -- 1866-1961. Church of God in Christ -- History. Church of God in Christ. African Americans -- Religion. African Americans -- Religion. United States -- Church history. United States. Church history. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11348057

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Varying Form of Title:	Race, religion, and the Church of God in Christ
ISBN:	9781610755108 1610755103 1557289778 9781557289773 9781283891219 1283891212
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"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a Pentecostal faith that celebrated the charismatic forms of religious expression that many blacks had come to view as outdated, unsophisticated, and embarrassing. While exmaining the intersection of race, religion, and class, The Rise to Respectability details how the denomination dealt with the stringent standard of bourgeois behavior imposed on churchgoers as they moved from southern rural areas into the urban centers in both the South and North. Rooted in the hardships of slavery and coming of age during Jim Crow, COGIC's story is more than a religious debate. Rather this book sees the history of the church as interwoven with the Great Migration, the struggle for modernity, class tension, and racial animosity -- all representative parts of the African American experience."--Project Muse.
Other form:	Print version: 9781283891219
Standard no.:	ebc2007873
Govt.docs classification:	HI.F 3/178-8:R 57/2012

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.

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