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Passionately Human, No Less Divine
2013,2005
Overview
The Great Migration was the most significant event in black life since emancipation and Reconstruction. Passionately Human, No Less Divine analyzes the various ways black southerners transformed African American religion in Chicago during their Great Migration northward. A work of religious, urban, and social history, it is the first book-length analysis of the new religious practices and traditions in Chicago that were stimulated by migration and urbanization. The book illustrates how the migration launched a new sacred order among blacks in the city that reflected aspects of both Southern black religion and modern city life. This new sacred order was also largely female as African American women constituted more than 70 percent of the membership in most black Protestant churches. Ultimately, Wallace Best demonstrates how black southerners imparted a folk religious sensibility to Chicago's black churches. In doing so, they ironically recast conceptions of modern, urban African American religion in terms that signified the rural past. In the same way that working class cultural idioms such as jazz and the blues emerged in the secular arena as a means to represent black modernity, he says, African American religion in Chicago, with its negotiation between the past, the present, rural and urban, revealed African American religion in modern form.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Subject
/ African Americans -- Religion -- Illinois -- Chicago
/ African Methodist Episcopal Church
/ Baptists
/ Chicago
/ Chicago (Illinois) -- Church history -- 20th century
/ Discrimination & Race Relations
/ God
/ Grossman
/ HISTORY
/ History and geography of church
/ Hokum
/ Illinois
/ Jezebel
/ Pastor
/ Piety
/ RELIGION
/ RELIGION / Christianity / General
/ Sermon
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
ISBN
1400849349, 9781400849345, 0691115788, 9780691133751, 9780691115788, 0691133751
