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Author Crumbley, Deidre Helen, 1947-

Title Saved and sanctified : the rise of a storefront church in Great Migration Philadelphia / Deidre Helen Crumbley
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages)
Series The history of African American religions
History of African-American religions.
Contents Call -- City tales -- Saints tales -- Becoming saints -- Family -- Response
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Religion
RELIGION -- Messianic Judaism.
RELIGION / General
African Americans -- Religion
SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Church history
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Genre/Form Church history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813043555
0813043557