Title Saints in Exile : the Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture

Published Cary : Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (362 pages) Series Religion in America Religion in America Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Introduction: “In the World, but Not of Itâ€? -- African Religious Traditions in the Sanctified Church -- Christianity and Social Ethics among the Slaves -- Emergence of the Sanctified Church as a Christian Renewal Movement -- 1: The Sanctified Churches and Christian Reform: Confronting the Barriers of Race, Sex, and Class -- Configurations of Race and Denomination in Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic Churches €œZionâ€?s Hillâ€?: Black Holiness in the Church of GodWilliam J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival -- Participation of Women and the Poor in the Holiness-Pentecostal Movement -- 2: Refuge and Reconciliation in a Holiness Congregation -- Pastoral Leadership at Third Street Church of God, 1910-1995 -- Sunday Worship -- The Urban Prayer Breakfast -- 3: “In the Beauty of Holiness: Ethics and Aesthetics in the Worship of the Saints -- Basic Elements of Sanctified Worship -- Saved, Sanctified, and Spirit-Baptized -- Static and Ecstatic Forms of Spirit Possession Worship and ExileThe Holy Dance: Shouting -- The Chant of Affirmation: “Yes, Lord!â€? -- Liturgical Attendants Wearing White -- Inclusion of Welcome and Announcements as Liturgy -- Ecstasy and Epistemology: “Having Church, â€? -- 4: Singing the Lordâ€?s Song in a Strange Land: Gospel Music and Popular Culture in the United States -- European Protestant Hymnody -- Negro Spirituals -- The Blues -- Jazz -- Rhythm and Blues: Soul Music -- Gospel Rap -- Classical Music -- Gospel Musicians in the Sanctified Tradition 5: Resistance, Rebellion, and Reform: The Collegiate Gospel Choir and the Black Clergy CaucusGospel Music and Black Identity on Campus -- The Black Clergy Caucus Movement in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) -- 6: Black Intellectuals and Storefront Religion in the Age of Black Consciousness -- Black Intellectuals and Black Religion in Exilic Perspective: A Typology of Traditions -- Afro-Pentecostal Thought -- 7: The Church in Exile: Vital Signs outside the Mainstream -- Summary: The Dialectics of Exilic Existence -- Toward an Exilic Ecclesiology The Ethics of Holiness and UnitySpirituality and Christian Formation -- Biblical and Ecumenical Witnesses of the Gospel Message -- Conclusion: Exile and Homecoming -- Notes -- Index Summary Saints in Exile studies, from an insider's perspective, the worship practices and social ethics of the African American family of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic churches known collectively as the Sanctified Church. Cheryl Sanders identifies the theme of exile, both as an idea and an experience, as the key to understanding the dialectical nature of African American religious and intellectual life, that W.E.B. Du Bois called ""double-conscious."" Sanders's saints in exile are a people who see themselves as ""in the world but not of it""; their marginalized status is both self-imposed and i Notes Print version record Subject Church of God (Anderson, Ind.) SUBJECT Church of God (Anderson, Ind.) fast (OCoLC)fst00532792 Subject African American Holiness church members. African American Pentecostals. African American Holiness church members. African American Pentecostals. SUBJECT United States -- Church history -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139929 Subject United States. Genre/Form Church history. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780195351330 0195351339

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