Saved and Sanctified: The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia

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Index AFL-CIO, 78 African Americans: biased research on, 5, 10; constant movement of, 11–12, 166; ethnography and, 4–5; “flat images” of, 4, 165 African Christian Diaspora, 176n6 African Diaspora, 12–14; Black church in diasporic perspective, 134–38; nuanced notion of, 166 African Instituted Churches (AIC), 9, 112; bifocal vision of, 14, 136 African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, 30–31, 69, 85, 129, 177n8 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) church, 25 African religious practices, 137. See also West African culture Afrophobia, 137–38 Aguilar, Abelardo, 68 Aladura churches, 130, 183n5; as ICMs, 137; shoutrelated event at, 136; witchcraft, belief in, 135 Alexander, Raymond Pace, 41 Alexander Slave Cemetery, 89 Ames, Jessie Daniel, 181n5 Anthropology: “decolonized,” 10; fieldworker as observer, 133; as salvific, 9; and study of Christianity , 172 Anti-apartheid struggle, 170, 184n1 Anti-intellectualism, of Pentecostal and Holiness traditions, 168 Anti-lynching proposal and President Woodrow Wilson, 40 Asian storekeepers, relationship with Blacks in North Philadelphia, 79 Assemblies of God, 24, 170–71 Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, 181n5 Asuza Street Mission, 24; revival movement, 24, 176n6 Authority and power, 3, 26, 113, 143–44, 155–59, 164 Baldwin, James, 11, 127, 170, 182n1 Ballard, Allen, 8, 11 Banner Real Estate, 179n11 Baptist church, 94; first Black congregations, 140; and gospel music, 41; The Church’s break from, 57–58; opposition to slavery, 176n5; in Philadelphia, 179n11; 11; Seattle storefront, study, 21; in South Carolina, 50, 52; Southern schools founded by, 101; in Virginia, 57–58, 91; on women’s ordination, 3; on women’s role in, 104 Barrett High School, 84 “Basket names,” 82, 182n13 Bettis, Alexander, 71, 181n9 Bettis Academy, 71, 101 Bible, The Church’s view of, 121; Bible study, 121–22; biblical authority, 19, 59, 115, 120–25, 127–28, 135, 138, 142, 157–58, 167, 168, 170 Biddle family, 72 Birth of a Nation (film), 33–34 Black churches: burning of, 177n3; colorism in independent , 42; racial uplift ideas in independent, 42; Sanctified churches and independent, 24; as social hub, 177n3 Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North (Fauset), 44 Black Jews, 43 Black Panther Party, 67 Black Religious Studies Group, x Black trolley drivers, riots against in Philadelphia, 88, 98 Black United Front, 184n1 Black/White interactions: connections between women, 105, 144; Elder April Peters Nichols on, 57; Elder Beverly Nichols Cromwell on, 70–71; Elder Walter Nichols on, 94; Jewish employers/Black workers, 57, 64; media coverage of, 94; North and South compared, 102–3; northern racism, described by Elder Frank, 88; Quaker traditions and, 80; in South Carolina, 62–63, 83, 97 202 · Index Black women’s club movement, 42 Blenheim, North Carolina, 50 Blocker, Rev., 71 “Bloody Edgefield” (South Carolina), 60, 72–73. See also Edgefield, South Carolina; Edgefield Plan Body: doing anthropology through, 133; discomfort over, in Sanctified tradition, 145; effects of Pentecostalism on, 145; sexualizing the Black body, 132; in study of religion, 132–33; in worship 22, 110, 127, 130–32, 136, 177n2 Bowman, Mr., 72 Brown, Mother. See Mother Brown Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 115 Buchman, Mr., 69 Business. See Church, The: financial matters Butler, Ann, 75 Butler, Carrie, 96 Byrd, William, 3, 140 Campbell’s Soup factory, 77, 98 Candomblé religion, Brazil, 130 Cartier School of Beauty, 77 Catholicism, 137 Catto, O. V., 32 Celestial Church of Christ, 183n5 Chanukah, 125 Charismatic founder-leaders, 43–44 Cherry, F. S., 43, 44, 113, 124 Cherry Building and Loan Association, 179n11 Cherry’s Family Kosher Restaurant, 112, 178n7 Chicago storefront churches, 15, 20 Children in The Church: Bible study, 122, 123; musical performances of, 110; Sunday Bible school, 155 Chosenness, 3, 25, 102, 113–14, 190n Christ Apostolic Church, 130, 183n5 Christianity: anthropological study of, 172; The Church’s reworking of, 13, 23, 134–35, 172; World Christianity, 14 Christian Tabernacle Church, 180n15 Church, The: age as organizing principle in, 167; annual fellowship day, 59, 162; author’s insider position, interpretive implications of, 10; building/ buildings of, 3, 141; as case study, 16, 166; catering matters, 98–99; characterized, 6; choir exchanges with other churches, 162; Christianity reworked by, 13, 23, 134–35, 172; Christmas customs, 125; “coming into,” 149; Communion/Passover celebrated in, 113, 125, 128; decision-making structures of, 158–59; Dedication week, 120, 123; defined, 1; as Diaspora religion, 12–13; doctrine, 123–25; as expression of self-determination, 169; early male members, 95; Easter customs, 125; and education, commitment...