The new Black gods

The new Black gods Arthur Huff Fauset and the study of African American religions / [electronic resource] : edited by Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009. - xiv, 269 p. ; 24 cm. - Religion in North America .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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