The new Black gods
Subtitle: Arthur Huff Fauset and the study of African American religions
By: edited by Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler.
Contributors: Curtis, Edward E., 1970-; Sigler, Danielle Brune.
Series: Religion in North America
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780253352828; 9780253220578
Subjects: African Americans -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Catherine l. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein; title: Introduction / Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler; title: New religious movement(s) of the great migration era; title: Fauset's (missing) pentecostals : church mothers, remaking respectability, and religious modernism / Clarence Hardy; title: "Grace has given God a vacation" : the history and development of the theology of the United House of Prayer of All People / Danielle Brune Sigler; title: "Chased out of Palestine" : Prophet Cherry's Church of God and early Black Judaisms in the United States / Nora L. Rubel; title: Debating the origins of the Moorish Science Temple : toward a new cultural history / Edward E. Curtis IV; title: "The consciousness of God's presence will keep you well, healthy, happy, and singing" : the tradition of innovation in the music of Father Divine's peace mission movement / Leonard Norman Primiano; title: "A true Moslem is a true spiritualist" : Black orientalism and Black gods of the metropolis / Jacob S. Dorman; title: Resurrecting Fauset's vision for African American religious studies; title: Religion proper and proper religion : Arthur Fauset and the study of African  American religions / Sylvester A. Johnson; title: The perpetual primitive in African American religious historiography / Kathryn Lofton; title: Turning African Americans into rational actors : the important legacy of Fauset's functionalism / Carolyn Rouse; title: Defining the "Negro problem" in Brazil : the shifting significance of Brazil's African heritage from the 1890s to the 1940s / Kelly E. Hayes; title: Fauset and his Black gods : intersections with the Herskovits-Frazier debate / Stephen W. Angell.