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Texas On The Record: The Church Of God In Christ (Cogic) Determination To Possess The Land In Texas (1907-1935), Karen Kossie-Chernyshev
Texas On The Record: The Church Of God In Christ (Cogic) Determination To Possess The Land In Texas (1907-1935), Karen Kossie-Chernyshev
Department of History, Geography and General Studies
This essay examines the missionary impulse of the Church of God in Christ, the largest predominantly African American Christian denomination in the world.
"'Texas On The Record': Church Of God In Christ (Cogic) Determination To Possess The Land, 1907-1935, Karen Kossie-Chernyshev
"'Texas On The Record': Church Of God In Christ (Cogic) Determination To Possess The Land, 1907-1935, Karen Kossie-Chernyshev
Department of History, Geography and General Studies
While members of the COGIC shunned being "of" this world, property records affirm that they were consciously and progressively "in" it. Property records literally grounded the COGIC in the material world and linked their concept of a "royal priesthood and a holy nation" to the bedrock of wealth in capitalist America--real estate, the COGIC's most visible sign of prosperity.