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Saved and sanctified : the rise of a storefront church in Great Migration Philadelphia / Deidre Helen Crumbley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: History of African-American religionsPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813043555
  • 0813043557
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Saved and Sanctified : The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia.DDC classification:
  • 289.95
LOC classification:
  • BR563.B53 C78 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Call -- City tales -- Saints tales -- Becoming saints -- Family -- Response.
Summary: On one level this book tells a very particular story - of a church started by a charismatic woman born just 16 years after the Emancipation Proclamation which not only survived the death of the founder, but also institutionalised power-sharing by female and male elders. On another level, it tells a more universal human story of institution building, establishing community, and pursuing a life of faith while negotiating rapidly changing and often adversarial social realities.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On one level this book tells a very particular story - of a church started by a charismatic woman born just 16 years after the Emancipation Proclamation which not only survived the death of the founder, but also institutionalised power-sharing by female and male elders. On another level, it tells a more universal human story of institution building, establishing community, and pursuing a life of faith while negotiating rapidly changing and often adversarial social realities.

Call -- City tales -- Saints tales -- Becoming saints -- Family -- Response.