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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	White, Calvin, 1973-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Church of God in Christ. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.