The Metropolitan Spiritual Churches of Christ: The Socio-Religious Evolution of the Largest of the Black Spiritual Associations
This paper discusses the social evolution of the Metropolitan Spiritual Churches of Christ, the largest of the Black Spiritual associations in the United States, from its beginnings in 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, to its zenith under the leadership of Clarence Cobbs, to a period of schismogenesis...
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1988
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Review of religious research
Year: 1988, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 140-150 |
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| Summary: | This paper discusses the social evolution of the Metropolitan Spiritual Churches of Christ, the largest of the Black Spiritual associations in the United States, from its beginnings in 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, to its zenith under the leadership of Clarence Cobbs, to a period of schismogenesis and retrenchment since Cobbs' death. As is true of other Spiritual groups, Metropolitan exhibits a highly syncretic belief system and a thaumaturgical/ manipulationist stance toward the larger society. Although most congregations affiliated with the Metropolitan association cater primarily to lower and working class Blacks, some of the larger congregations whose leaders exhibit middle-class propensities have adopted upon a strategies of both "mainstreaming" and "streamlining" the Spiritual religion by discarding certain traditional magico-religious rituals. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511351 |