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Passionately Human, No Less Divine : Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952 / Wallace D. Best.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2005Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 12 halftones. 3 line illus. 3 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691133751
  • 9781400849345
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 277.3/11/08208996073 22
LOC classification:
  • BR563.N4
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. "Mecca of the Migrant Mob" -- Chapter Two. The South in the City -- Chapter Three. Southern Migrants and the New Sacred Order -- Chapter Four. The Frenzy, the Preacher, and the Music -- Chapter Five. The Chicago African Methodist Episcopal Church in Crisis -- Chapter Six. A Woman's Work, or Urban World -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
Summary: The Great Migration was the most significant event in black life since emancipation and Reconstruction. Passionately Human, No Less Divine analyzes the various ways black southerners transformed African American religion in Chicago during their Great Migration northward. A work of religious, urban, and social history, it is the first book-length analysis of the new religious practices and traditions in Chicago that were stimulated by migration and urbanization. The book illustrates how the migration launched a new sacred order among blacks in the city that reflected aspects of both Southern black religion and modern city life. This new sacred order was also largely female as African American women constituted more than 70 percent of the membership in most black Protestant churches. Ultimately, Wallace Best demonstrates how black southerners imparted a folk religious sensibility to Chicago's black churches. In doing so, they ironically recast conceptions of modern, urban African American religion in terms that signified the rural past. In the same way that working class cultural idioms such as jazz and the blues emerged in the secular arena as a means to represent black modernity, he says, African American religion in Chicago, with its negotiation between the past, the present, rural and urban, revealed African American religion in modern form.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. "Mecca of the Migrant Mob" -- Chapter Two. The South in the City -- Chapter Three. Southern Migrants and the New Sacred Order -- Chapter Four. The Frenzy, the Preacher, and the Music -- Chapter Five. The Chicago African Methodist Episcopal Church in Crisis -- Chapter Six. A Woman's Work, or Urban World -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

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The Great Migration was the most significant event in black life since emancipation and Reconstruction. Passionately Human, No Less Divine analyzes the various ways black southerners transformed African American religion in Chicago during their Great Migration northward. A work of religious, urban, and social history, it is the first book-length analysis of the new religious practices and traditions in Chicago that were stimulated by migration and urbanization. The book illustrates how the migration launched a new sacred order among blacks in the city that reflected aspects of both Southern black religion and modern city life. This new sacred order was also largely female as African American women constituted more than 70 percent of the membership in most black Protestant churches. Ultimately, Wallace Best demonstrates how black southerners imparted a folk religious sensibility to Chicago's black churches. In doing so, they ironically recast conceptions of modern, urban African American religion in terms that signified the rural past. In the same way that working class cultural idioms such as jazz and the blues emerged in the secular arena as a means to represent black modernity, he says, African American religion in Chicago, with its negotiation between the past, the present, rural and urban, revealed African American religion in modern form.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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