Saints in Exile The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture

Name: Saints in Exile The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture
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ISBN: 9780195098433

ISBN-10: 0195098439

ISBN-13: 9780195098433

Edition: 1996

Authors: Cheryl J. Sanders

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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 involuntary, a consequence of racism, sexism and other forms of elitism. When joined with the biblical…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/22/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Introduction: "In the World, But Not of It,"	p. 3
African Religious Traditions in the Sanctified Church	p. 6
Christianity and Social Ethics among the Slaves	p. 9
Emergence of the Sanctified Church as a Christian Renewal Movement	p. 14
The Sanctified Churches and Christian Reform: Confronting the Barriers of Race, Sex, and Class	p. 17
Configurations of Race and Denomination in Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic Churches	p. 17
"Zion's Hill": Black Holiness in the Church of God	p. 21
William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival	p. 27
Participation of Women and the Poor in the Holiness-Pentecostal Movement	p. 32
Refuge and Reconciliation in a Holiness Congregation	p. 35
Pastoral Leadership at Third Street Church of God, 1910-1995	p. 35
Sunday Worship	p. 42
The Urban Prayer Breakfast	p. 46
"In the Beauty of Holiness": Ethics and Aesthetics in the Worship of the Saints	p. 49
Basic Elements of Sanctified Worship	p. 49
Saved, Sanctified, and Spirit-Baptized	p. 58
Static and Ecstatic Forms of Spirit Possession	p. 59
Worship and Exile	p. 63
The Holy Dance: Shouting	p. 64
The Chant of Affirmation: "Yes, Lord!,"	p. 67
Liturgical Attendants Wearing White	p. 68
Inclusion of Welcome and Announcements as Liturgy	p. 69
Ecstasy and Epistemology: "Having Church,"	p. 70
Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Gospel Music and Popular Culture in the United States	p. 71
European Protestant Hymnody	p. 74
Negro Spirituals	p. 76
The Blues	p. 78
Jazz	p. 79
Rhythm and Blues: Soul Music	p. 81
Gospel Rap	p. 83
Classical Music	p. 85
Gospel Musicians in the Sanctified Tradition	p. 86
Resistance, Rebellion, and Reform: The Collegiate Gospel Choir and the Black Clergy Caucus	p. 91
Gospel Music and Black Identity on Campus	p. 92
The Black Clergy Caucus Movement in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	p. 98
Black Intellectuals and Storefront Religion in the Age of Black Consciousness	p. 106
Black Intellectuals and Black Religion in Exilic Perspective: A Typology of Traditions	p. 106
Afro-Pentecostal Thought	p. 118
The Church in Exile: Vital Signs outside the Mainstream	p. 123
Summary: The Dialectics of Exilic Existence	p. 123
Toward an Exilic Ecclesiology	p. 125
The Ethics of Holiness and Unity	p. 132
Spirituality and Christian Formation	p. 136
Biblical and Ecumenical Witnesses of the Gospel Message	p. 138
Conclusion: Exile and Homecoming	p. 143
Notes	p. 152
Index	p. 171
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