The rise to respectability
Subtitle: race, religion, and the Church of God in Christ
By: Calvin White, Jr
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781557289773
Subjects: Religion; Church of God in Christ; History; African Americans; Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the roots of the study; title: In the beginning, there stood two: the reconstruction of African American religion and the birth of the Black holiness movement; title: We will let the courts speak for us: controversy within the holiness movement and the excommunication of a saint; title: Mason told us not to fight: religion, respectability, and conscientious objectorship; title: Come over to Macedonia and help: sanctification disguised as racial uplift; title: Memphis, the hope of a promised land: the achievement of respectability for the Church of God in Christ; title: "Dar he": COGIC and the national civil rights movement; title: Afterword: wandering in the wilderness.