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Daddy Grace: A Celebrity Preacher and His House of Prayer

Daddy Grace: A Celebrity Preacher and His House of Prayer

Dallam, Marie W.

Hardcover

Series: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 0814720102
ISBN13: 9780814720103
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Nov 1 2007
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.43 Depth: 8.97
Language: English

Charles Manuel Sweet Daddy Grace founded the United House of Prayer for All People in Wareham, Massachusetts, in 1919. This charismatic church has been regarded as one of the most extreme Pentecostal sects in the country. In addition to attention-getting maneuvers such as wearing purple suits with glitzy jewelry, purchasing high profile real estate, and conducting baptisms in city streets with a fire hose, the flamboyant Grace reputedly accepted massive donations from his poverty-stricken followers and used the money to live lavishly. It was assumed by many that Grace was the charismatic glue that held his church together, and that once he was gone the institution would disintegrate. Instead, following his 1960 death there was a period of confusion, restructuring, and streamlining. Today the House of Prayer remains an active church with a national membership in the tens of thousands.

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