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Contents

Acknowledgments

PART I. INTRODUCTION

Introduction

1 The Church of God in Christ: Pentecostal History, Doctrine, and Polity

PART II. BECOMING THE CALLED

2 “Heard a Voice from Heaven Say”: Calling Narratives among Black Pentecostals

3 “All the World’s a Stage”: How Congregations Create the Called

PART III. BEING THE CALLED

4 “A Stutter And A Stick”: The (Non-) Value of Educational Credentialing

5 “Don’t Quit Your Day Job”: Redefining Religious Work

6 “Chew the Meat and Spit Out the Bones”: Negotiating Women’s Clerical Identity

PART IV. CONCLUSION

7 Legitimating New Understandings of Ministry and the Clergy

Appendix

Notes

References

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