Introduction: the roots of the study
In the beginning, there stood two: the reconstruction of African American religion and the birth of the Black holiness movement
We will let the courts speak for us: controversy within the holiness movement and the excommunication of a saint
Mason told us not to fight: religion, respectability, and conscientious objectorship
Come over to Macedonia and help: sanctification disguised as racial uplift
Memphis, the hope of a promised land: the achievement of respectability for the Church of God in Christ
"Dar he": COGIC and the national civil rights movement
Afterword: wandering in the wilderness.