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The rise to respectability race, religion, and the Church of God in Christ / by White, Calvin, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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The Eternal Dissident : Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act / by Beerman, Leonard I., 1921-2014

Table of Contents: “…Lawson Jr -- First encounter with George (Regas), April 13, 2005 -- Why the prophets are important, May 20, 1983 / commentary by Professor Jack Miles -- Handwritten reflections on doubt / commentary by Rabbi Rachel Timoner -- Can we excommunicate God? April 30, 1965 / commentary by Professor Rabbi Rachel Adler -- Duty of the rabbi / commentary by Rabbi Richard Levy -- Diary of a Leo Baeck Temple rabbi, February 5, 1971 / commentary by Rabbi Kenneth Chasen -- List of things to do today -- Yom Kippur eve-vocation of a rabbi, September 17, 1972 / commentary by Rabbi Sharon Brous -- Fast between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, September 1972 / commentary by Professor Steven J. …”
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The Eternal Dissident : Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act / by Beerman, Leonard I., 1921-2014

Table of Contents: “…Lawson Jr -- First encounter with George (Regas), April 13, 2005 -- Why the prophets are important, May 20, 1983 / commentary by Professor Jack Miles -- Handwritten reflections on doubt / commentary by Rabbi Rachel Timoner -- Can we excommunicate God? April 30, 1965 / commentary by Professor Rabbi Rachel Adler -- Duty of the rabbi / commentary by Rabbi Richard Levy -- Diary of a Leo Baeck Temple rabbi, February 5, 1971 / commentary by Rabbi Kenneth Chasen -- List of things to do today -- Yom Kippur eve-vocation of a rabbi, September 17, 1972 / commentary by Rabbi Sharon Brous -- Fast between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, September 1972 / commentary by Professor Steven J. …”
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