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Azusa Reimagined: A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic Belonging

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

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In Azusa Reimagined, Keri Day explores how the Azusa Street Revival of 1906, out of which U.S. Pentecostalism emerged, directly critiqued America's distorted capitalist values and practices at the start of the twentieth century. Employing historical research, theological analysis, and critical theory, Day demonstrates that Azusa's religious rituals and traditions rejected the racial norms and profit-driven practices that many white Christian communities gladly embraced.

Through its sermons and social practices, the Azusa community critiqued racialized conceptions of citizenship that guided early capitalist endeavors such as world fairs and expositions. Azusa also envisioned deeper democratic practices of human belonging and care than the white nationalist loyalties early U.S. capitalism encouraged. In this lucid work, Day makes Azusa's challenge to this warped economic ecology visible, showing how Azusa not only offered a radical critique of racial capitalism but also offers a way for contemporary religious communities to cultivate democratic practices of belonging against the backdrop of late capitalism's deep racial divisions and material inequalities.

Azusa Reimagined: A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic Belonging and Azusa Reimagined: A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic Belonging
Azusa Reimagined: A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic BelongingAzusa Reimagined: A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic Belonging
  • Author

    Keri Day

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Stanford University Press

  • Published

    June 2022

  • Weight

    296g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781503631625

  • ISBN-10

    1503631621

  • Eden Code

    5599650

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