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Saints in exile : the Holiness-Pentecostal experience in African American religion and culture
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ISBN: 0195351339 0585257132 9780585257136 0195131010 0195098439 9780195098433 9780195131017 0195131010 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Saints in Exile studies, from an insider's perspective, the worship practices and social ethics of the African American family of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic churches known collectively as the Sanctified Church. Cheryl Sanders identifies the theme of exile, both as an idea and an experience, as the key to understanding the dialectical nature of African American religious and intellectual life, that W.E.B. Du Bois called ""double-conscious."" Sanders's saints in exile are a people who see themselves as ""in the world but not of it""; their marginalized status is both self-imposed and i

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