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God, Harlem U.S.A
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ISBN: 0520916697 0585249873 9780520916692 9780585249872 0520074556 0520201728 Year: 1995 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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How did an African-American man born in a ghetto in 1879 rise to such religious prominence that his followers addressed letters to him simply "God, Harlem U.S.A."?Using hitherto unknown materials, Jill Watts portrays the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing religious leaders, Father Divine. Starting as an itinerant preacher, Father Divine built an unprecedented movement that by the 1930s had attracted followers across the nation and around the world. As his ministry grew, so did the controversy surrounding his enormous wealth, flamboyant style, and committed "angels"—black and white, rich and poor alike.Here for the first time a full account of Father Divine's childhood and early years challenges previous contentions that he was born into a sharecropping family in the deep South. While earlier biographers have concentrated on Father Divine's social and economic programs, Watts focuses on his theology, which gives new meaning to secular activities that often appeared contradictory. Although much has been written about Father Divine, God, Harlem U.S.A. finally provides a balanced and intimate account of his life's work.

Peoples Temple and Black religion in America
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ISBN: 9786612071386 1282071386 0253110831 9780253110831 9780253343710 0253343712 9780253216557 0253216559 9781282071384 Year: 2004 Publisher: Bloomington, IN Indiana University Press

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The Peoples Temple movement ended on November 18, 1978 in their utopianist community of Jonestown, Guyana, when more than 900 members died, most of whom took their own lives. Only a handful lived to tell their story. Little has been written about the Peoples Temple in the context of black religion in America. Twenty-five years after the tragedy of Jonestown, scholars from various disciplines assess the impact of the Peoples Temple on the black religious experience.

America's communal utopias
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ISBN: 080789897X 9780807898970 9781469604459 1469604450 080782299X 9780807822999 0807846090 9780807846094 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press

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From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, I

America's alternative religions
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ISBN: 0585045844 9780585045849 0791423972 0791423980 9781438413112 Year: 1995 Publisher: Albany State university of New York press

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Cults --- Sects --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- North & South American Religions --- United States --- 289.93 --- 289.93 Niet-confessioneel neo-christianisme --- Niet-confessioneel neo-christianisme --- 1960 --- -Cults --- established Christian alternative religion --- the Anabaptists --- Methodist holiness --- Pentecostal spirituality --- Adventism --- Jehovah's Witnesses --- Protestantism --- the Latter-day Saints Churches --- Christian Science --- American culture --- American Quakerism --- Swedenborgianism --- Unitarian Universalism --- Christian movements --- Jewish movements --- Roman Catholic Traditionalism --- Hasidism --- Alternative Jewish Movements in America --- British-Israelism --- Christian Identity --- the Children of God --- the Boston Church of Christ --- Holy Order of MANS --- Christ the Savior Brotherhood --- the Branch Davidians --- religions from Asia --- Buddhism --- Hinduism --- Hindu movements --- Hare Krishna --- the Unification Church --- religions from the Middle East --- Islam --- the American Baha'i community --- Sufism --- Gurdjief --- Subud --- African-American freedom movements --- Black Jews --- Black Muslims --- Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement --- Santeria --- Vodou --- Rastafarianism --- Peoples Temple --- ancient wisdom --- New Age movements --- theosophy --- New Thought --- the Harmonial Family --- Spiritualism --- Channeling --- Neo-Paganism --- witchcraft --- the Association for Research and Enlightenment --- Eckankar --- Hippie communal spirituality --- new religions:American Indian religion --- the Church of Scientology --- UFO religious movements --- Satanism --- Satanic Churches --- Modern American Anticult Ideology --- Opus Dei

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