Saved and sanctified :
Crumbley, Deidre Helen, 1947-
Saved and sanctified : the rise of a storefront church in Great Migration Philadelphia / Deidre Helen Crumbley. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012. - 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages) - The history of African American religions . - History of African-American religions. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call -- City tales -- Saints tales -- Becoming saints -- Family -- Response.
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.
9780813043555 0813043557
22573/ctvwwgrdh JSTOR
African Americans--Religion.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
RELIGION--Messianic Judaism.
African Americans--Religion.
RELIGION / General
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Church history.
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Electronic books.
Church history.
BR563.N4 / C78 2012eb
289.95
Saved and sanctified : the rise of a storefront church in Great Migration Philadelphia / Deidre Helen Crumbley. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012. - 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages) - The history of African American religions . - History of African-American religions. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call -- City tales -- Saints tales -- Becoming saints -- Family -- Response.
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.
9780813043555 0813043557
22573/ctvwwgrdh JSTOR
African Americans--Religion.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
RELIGION--Messianic Judaism.
African Americans--Religion.
RELIGION / General
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Church history.
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Electronic books.
Church history.
BR563.N4 / C78 2012eb
289.95
