Women in the Church of God in Christ
Subtitle: making a sanctified world
By: Anthea D. Butler.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; Univ of North Carolina Pr; Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780807831175; 9780807858080
Subjects: Church of God in Christ; Women in church work
Description: The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today. In this first major study of the church, Anthea Butler examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s. She finds that the sanctification, or spiritual purity, that these women sought earned them social power both in the church and in the black community. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Motherhood; title: Calling; title: Migration; title: Prohibitions; title: Education; title: Civics; title: Conventions.