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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.
African American clergy --- Father Divine. --- Peace Mission Movement. --- Baker, George, --- Devine, Major J. --- Divine, --- Divine, M. J., --- Divine, Major J. --- Divine, Morgan J. --- Divine, Jealous, --- Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement --- Universal Peace Mission Movement --- HARLEM (NEW YORK, N.Y.) --- FATHER DIVINE --- HISTORY --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --- Father Divine --- History --- Biography & Autobiography --- Father divine --- African american clergy --- Biography & autobiography --- Social science --- Biography.
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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.
African American churches --- African Americans --- Afro-American churches --- Black churches --- Churches, African American --- Negro churches --- Christian sects --- History. --- Religion. --- Religion --- Jones, Jim, --- Jones, James Warren, --- Jones, Jimmie, --- Peoples Temple. --- Templo del Pueblo --- Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ --- Peoples Temple --- black religion --- black religious studies --- Daddy Jones --- Father Divine --- Jonestown --- the Black Church --- demographics and the black religious culture of Peoples Temple --- Peoples Temple and housing politics in San Francisco --- religion and revolution after Black Power --- Jim Jones --- black worship traditions --- America --- the Church --- cults --- political religion
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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
Collective settlements -- United States -- History. --- Communal living -- United States -- History. --- Communitarianism -- United States. --- Communitarianism. --- Collective settlements --- United States --- History --- Communitarianism --- communitarian societies --- Colonial America --- the Shakers --- Mother Ann Lee --- George Rapp --- Harmony Society --- the New Moral World --- Robert Owen --- New Harmony --- communal life --- communal values --- the Mormons --- Brook Farm --- the Fourierist Phalanxes --- Immediatism --- Gradualism --- American Utopian Socialism --- the Community of True Inspiration --- Germany --- the Amana Colonies --- religious orders --- monastic communalism --- America --- Free Love --- John Humphrey Noyes --- the Oneida Perfectionists --- the Icarian communities --- Eric Jansson --- the Bishop Hill Colony --- Hutterism --- American Jewish agricultural colonies --- Cyrus Reed Teed --- the Koreshan Unity --- the Theosophical Communities --- Universal Brotherhood --- Father Divine --- the Peace Mission
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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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