Best, Wallace D.

Passionately human, no less divine : religion and culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952 / Wallace D. Best. - 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-237) and index.

"Mecca of the migrant mob" -- The South in the city. -- Southern migrants and the new sacred order. -- The frenzy, the preacher, and the music. -- The Chicago African Methodist Episcopal Church in crisis. -- A woman's work, an urban world.

9781400849345 (e-book)


African Americans--Religion--Illinois--Chicago.


Chicago (Ill.)--Church history--20th century.


Electronic books.

BR563.N4 / B47 2005eb

277.3/11/08208996073