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99/7/1

2007

Butler, Anthea D.
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A peculiar synergy : matriarchy and the Church of God in Christ.

2001.

viii, 178 leaves ; 28 cm.

Bibliography: leaves 170-178.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Vanderbilt University, 2001.

Abstract: The dissertation is a history covering the years from 1912-1963 of the Women's Department of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). COGIC, the largest African American Pentecostal denomination, founded in 1897, has a Women's Department established by denominational head C.H. Mason that centers around the Church Mother. The Church Mother in the African American religious tradition is an older woman of the congregation, with exemplary spiritual and organizational skills, who acts, as sociologist Cheryl Townsend Gilkes terms 'as a counterfoil to the Pastor.' The office of Church Mother, an unordained leadership role, has extraordinary temporal and spiritual power within the congregation. Within COGIC, the role of Church Mother has been institutionalized, and has been used as an organizational tool to build the denomination, transmit doctrine, and shape behavioral and belie

Robinson, Lizzie.
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Coffey, Lillian Brooks.
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Mallory, Arenia.
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Church of God in Christ.
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Church of God in Christ--Afro-American women--History.
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Women in church work.
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Pentecostalism--History.
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09/26/2008