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Move : an American religion / Richard Kent Evans.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evans, Richard Kent, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa, John, 1931-1985.
- Africa, John.
- MOVE (Organization).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Richard Kent Evans tells the story of MOVE, a small, little-known, mostly African American group that emerged in Philadelphia in the early 1970s. In 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department - working in concert with federal and state law enforcement - attacked a home that MOVE members shared in West Philadelphia. Eleven people were killed in the attack, including five children. Many MOVE members thought of themselves as belonging to a religion, but to others, most importantly the courts, MOVE was anything but. Evans uses MOVE's story as a lens through which to examine how we decide what constitutes a genuine religious tradition, and the enormous consequences of that decision.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-005879-X
- 0-19-005880-3
- 0-19-005878-1
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