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The Rise to Respectability

Race, Religion, and the Church of God in Christ

by Calvin White

  • Hardback
  • 239 pages
  • Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

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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a Pentecostal faith that celebrated charismatic forms of religious expression that many blacks had come to view as outdated, unsophisticated, and embarrassing.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 as they moved from southern rural areas into the urban centers in both the South and North. Rooted in the hardships of slavery and coming of age during Jim Crow, COGIC's story is more than a religious debate. Rather, this book sees the history of the church as interwoven with the Great Migration, the struggle for modernity, class tension, and racial animosity--all representative parts of the African American experience.
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  • Author

    Calvin White

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of Arkansas Press

  • Published

    November 2012

  • Weight

    369g

  • Page Count

    239

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781557289773

  • ISBN-10

    1557289778

  • Eden Code

    4049119

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