The new Black gods : Arthur Huff Fauset and the study of African American religions / edited by Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curtis, Edward E., IV, 1970-

Sigler, Danielle Brune.

Series:

Religion in North America.

Religion in North America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

xiv, 269 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is essential reading for anyone who studies the African American experience.

Contents:

Foreword / by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein

Introduction / Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler

New religious movement(s) of the great migration era

Fauset's (missing) Pentecostals : church mothers, remaking respectability, and religious modernism / Clarence E. Hardy III

"Grace has given God a vacation" : the history and development of the theology of the United House of Prayer of All People / Danielle Brune Sigler

"Chased out of Palestine" : Prophet Cherry's Church of God and early Black Judaisms in the United States / Nora L. Rubel

Debating the origins of the Moorish Science Temple : toward a new cultural history / Edward E. Curtis IV

"The consciousness of God's presence will keep you well, healthy, happy, and singing" : the tradition of innovation in the music of Father Divine's peace mission movement / Leonard Norman Primiano

"A true Moslem is a true spiritualist" : Black orientalism and Black gods of the metropolis / Jacob S. Dorman

Resurrecting Fauset's vision for African American religious studies

Religion proper and proper religion : Arthur Fauset and the study of African American religions / Sylvester A. Johnson

The perpetual primitive in African American religious historiography / Kathryn Lofton

Turning African Americans into rational actors : the important legacy of Fauset's functionalism / Carolyn Rouse

Defining the "Negro problem" in Brazil : the shifting significance of Brazil's African heritage from the 1890s to the 1940s / Kelly E. Hayes

Fauset and his Black gods : intersections with the Herskovits-Frazier debate / Stephen W. Angell.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612539923

9781282539921

1282539922

9780253004086

025300408X

OCLC:

607554436