Azusa Reimagined
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Azusa Reimagined

A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic Belonging

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Azusa Reimagined

A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic Belonging

About this book

In Azusa Reimagined, Keri Day explores how the Azusa Street Revival of 1906, out of which U.S. Pentecostalism emerged, directly critiqued America's distorted capitalist values and practices at the start of the twentieth century. Employing historical research, theological analysis, and critical theory, Day demonstrates that Azusa's religious rituals and traditions rejected the racial norms and profit-driven practices that many white Christian communities gladly embraced.

Through its sermons and social practices, the Azusa community critiqued racialized conceptions of citizenship that guided early capitalist endeavors such as world fairs and expositions. Azusa also envisioned deeper democratic practices of human belonging and care than the white nationalist loyalties early U.S. capitalism encouraged. In this lucid work, Day makes Azusa's challenge to this warped economic ecology visible, showing how Azusa not only offered a radical critique of racial capitalism but also offers a way for contemporary religious communities to cultivate democratic practices of belonging against the backdrop of late capitalism's deep racial divisions and material inequalities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Series Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Subversive Beginnings
  9. 1. Capitalist Visions of Pentecost
  10. 2. Toppling White Evangelical and Market Orthodoxies
  11. 3. Black Female Genius
  12. 4. Azusa’s Erotic Life
  13. 5. Lawlessness: A Critique of American Democracy
  14. 6. A Democracy to Come: Embracing Azusa’s Political Moodiness
  15. Notes
  16. Selected Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Series List