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The Rise to Respectability
Jr. Calvin White
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Description for The Rise to Respectability
Hardcover. Num Pages: 239 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAX; HRCC96; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
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 Charles Harrison Mason, the son of slaves and founder of COGIC, embraced a Pentecostal faith that celebrated charismatic forms of religious expression that many blacks had come to view as outdated, unsophisticated, and embarrassing. While examining 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 ... Read more
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 Charles Harrison Mason, the son of slaves and founder of COGIC, embraced a Pentecostal faith that celebrated charismatic forms of religious expression that many blacks had come to view as outdated, unsophisticated, and embarrassing. While examining 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press United States
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557289773
SKU
V9781557289773
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99-15
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