TY - BOOK AU - Crumbley,Deidre Helen TI - Saved and sanctified: the rise of a storefront church in Great Migration Philadelphia T2 - The history of African American religions SN - 9780813043555 AV - BR563.B53 C78 2012eb U1 - 289.95 PY - 2012/// CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - African Americans KW - Pennsylvania KW - Philadelphia KW - Religion KW - Noirs américains KW - Pennsylvanie KW - Philadelphie KW - RELIGION KW - Messianic Judaism KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION / General KW - fast KW - Philadelphia (Pa.) KW - Church history KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Call -- City tales -- Saints tales -- Becoming saints -- Family -- Response N2 - On one level this book tells a very particular story - of a church started by a charismatic woman born just 16 years after the Emancipation Proclamation which not only survived the death of the founder, but also institutionalised power-sharing by female and male elders. On another level, it tells a more universal human story of institution building, establishing community, and pursuing a life of faith while negotiating rapidly changing and often adversarial social realities UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=463207 ER -