Azusa reimagined : a radical vision of religious and democratic belonging / Keri Day.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781503631632
- ISBN: 150363163X
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 218 pages).
- Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : subversive beginnings -- Capitalist visions of Pentecost -- Toppling white evangelical and market orthodoxies -- Black female genius -- Azusa's erotic life -- Lawlessness : a critique of American democracy -- A democracy to come : embracing Azusa's political moodiness. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 14, 2022). |
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