Spiritual church movement

Short description: African American Spiritualist churches

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The spiritual church movement is an informal name for a group of loosely allied and also independent Spiritualist churches and Spiritualist denominations that have in common that they have been historically based in the African American community.

Many of them owe their origin to the evangelical work of Leafy Anderson, a black religious leader of the early 20th century who was born in Wisconsin and in 1913 founded the Eternal Life Christian Spiritualist Association. In 1920, she relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana, where she demonstrated mediumship by bringing messages from her spirit guide Black Hawk, a historical war leader of the Native American Sauk tribe, who had lived near where she was born.[1]

Although the churches founded by Anderson are often associated with New Orleans, the spiritual church movement has always been national in scope. It spread quickly throughout America during the 1920s, and one impetus for its diffusion was that in 1922, the National Spiritualist Association of Churches expelled or made unwelcome all of its black members.[2] This led to the formation of a national group called the Colored Spiritualist Association of Churches, and within a few years there were Black Spiritualist churches in Chicago , Detroit, Philadelphia, and many other cities.[2][3] During the decade preceding World War II, the Spiritual churches of New York City were well documented in print and film.[4][5]

At the present time,[when?] the spiritual church movement encompasses primarily churches which are influenced by Protestant Christian worship styles, especially Baptist and Pentecostal praise music, as well as churches that contain a great deal of Catholic imagery, including the veneration of saints.[6][7]

It is common usage to distinguish spiritual church movement churches from other, often less explicitly Christian, Spiritualist churches, by the use of the name "Spiritual" rather than "Spiritualist" in their titles. This naming convention is found in mid-20th-century books such as How To Conduct a Candle Light Service by Mikhail Strabo and Rev. Adele Clemens of Divine Harmony Spiritual Church.[4] It is also notable in the names of Christian Spiritualist denominations within the Spiritual Church Movement, such as:

* Metropolitan Spiritual Churches of Christ, founded in 1925[8]
* Pentecostal Spiritual Assemblies of Christ Worldwide, founded in 1938 (whose motto is "Pentecostal by Birth, Spiritual by Lifestyle, Apostolic by Experience, and Christian by Demand. A Spiritual Church... On a Spiritual Foundation... Walking in the Supernatural..."),[9]
* Mount Zion Spiritual Temple, founded by King Louis H. Narcisse in Oakland, California, in 1945, and the allied churches he founded and led in Detroit, Michigan; Sacramento, California; Bakersfield, California; and Houston, Texas
* Universal Hagar's Spiritual Church, founded in the 1920s, which also operates the Hagar’s School of Mediumship and Psychology.[2][6][10][11]

## See also

* List of Spiritualist organizations

## References

1. ↑ Berry, Jason (1995). The Spirit of Blackhawk: a Mystery of Africans and Indians. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-0878058068. https://archive.org/details/spiritofblackhaw00berr.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Baer, Hans A. (1984). The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism. University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-1572331464.
3. ↑ Yronwode, Catherine (2013). The Art of Hoodoo Candle Magic in Rootwork, Conjure, and Spiritual Church Services. Missionary Independent Spiritual Church. ISBN 978-0-9836483-6-9.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Strabo, Mikhail; Clemens, Rev. Adele (1943). How To Conduct a Candle Light Service. Guidance House.
5. ↑ The "March of Time" newsreel clip, "Harlem's Black Magic," 1937, contains footage of African American Spiritual Church, occult shop, and spiritual advisor signage in New York City; a copy is located at the Black Media Archive, as Episode 256: [1]; church signage includes "Meetings Here Every Wednesday Night -- Spiritual-Pontifical Lectures and Demonstrations -- No Charge -- All Welcome -- By Prof. F [?] Wilson [?] -- Books on Sale - Incense," "Madame Bess - Special Good-Luck Powers," "Professor Payango DeVasso -- Metaphysician and Spiritual Advisor," "Church of the Guiding Apostle," "Sister Mignonette -- The Church Is One Foundation," "Bishop Payango DeVasso - Chapel of the Holy Spirit - Holy Ghost Branch," and "Chapel of the Sacred Spirit - Holy Ghost Branch - Bishop Payango DeVasso"
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Jacobs, Claude F.; Kaslow, Andrew J. (1991). The Spiritual Churches of New Orleans Origins, Beliefs, and Rituals of an African-American Religion. The University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 1-57233-148-8. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780870497025.
7. ↑ Smith, Michael (1992). Spirit World: Pattern in the Expressive Folk Culture of New Orleans. Pelican Publishing. ISBN 978-0-88289-895-7.
8. ↑ "Metropolitan Spiritual Churches of Christ". http://www.metrospiritualchurch.com.
9. ↑ "Pentecostal Spiritual Assemblies of Christ Worldwide". http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pentecostal-Spiritual-Assemblies-of-Christ-Worldwide/188155671194450?sk=pe#!/pages/Pentecostal-Spiritual-Assemblies-of-Christ-Worldwide/188155671194450?sk=info.
10. ↑ "Universal Hagar's Spiritual Church". http://fatherhurley.com.
11. ↑ Murphy, Larry G.; Melton, J. Gordon; Ward, Gary L. (1993). Encyclopedia of African American Religions. Garland Publishing. ISBN 978-0415922456. https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofaf00murp.

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* List of Spiritualist organizations
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* Edward Clodd
* Edmund Smith Conklin
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* Harry Price
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* James Randi
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* Joseph Rinn
* C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
* Chung Ling Soo
* Gordon Stein
* Amy Tanner
* Ivor Lloyd Tuckett
* Lyttelton Winslow
* Richard Wiseman

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