Saved and Sanctified: The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia (History of African-American Religions)

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During the early twentieth century, millions of southern blacks moved north to escape the violent racism of the Jim Crow South and to find employment in urban centers. They transplanted not only themselves but also their culture; in the course of this tumultuous demographic transition emerged a new social institution, the storefront sanctified church.
   
Saved and Sanctified makes a speciality of one such Philadelphia church that was once began above a horse stable, was once founded by a woman born sixteen years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and is still active these days. “The Church,” as it’s known to its members, offers a unique point of view on an under-studied aspect of African American religious institutions.  
    
Through painstaking historical and ethnographic research, Deidre Helen Crumbley illuminates the an important role these oftentimes controversial churches played in the spiritual life of the African American community all the way through and after the Great Migration. She provides a new point of view on women and their leadership roles, examines the loose or nonexistent relationship these Pentecostal churches have with existing denominations, and dispels common prejudices about those who attend storefront churches. Skillfully interweaving personal vignettes from her own experience as a member, along side life stories of founding members, Crumbley provides new insights into the importance of grassroots religion and community-based houses of worship.

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