Black Gods of the Metropolis. A Dissertation in Antthropology by Fauset, Arthur Huff - 1944

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Anthropological Society. A study of black urban religious cults, with focus on Mt. Sinai Church of America, United House of Prayer for All ("Daddy Grace"), Church of God ("Black Jews"), Moorish Science Temple of America, and Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement. Fauset was the half-brother of Jessie Fauset (African American novelist, critic, poet, and editor known for her discovery and encouragement of several writers of the Harlem Renaissance and an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance in his own right). He contributed to *Opportunity*, *Fire!!* and Alain Locke's *The New Negro*. Author's original publication of this work, later printed in other forms. In a library binder. x, 126 pp with photo plates. Library binder. . Good. Hardcover. First Edition Assumed. 1944.