Father Divine (c. 1876 – September 10, 1965), also known as Reverend M. J. Divine, was an American spiritual leader [2] from about 1907 until his death in 1965. His full self-given name was Reverend …

Father Divine, prominent African American religious leader of the 1930s. The Depression-era movement he founded, the Peace Mission, was originally dismissed as a cult, but it still exists and is now …

Jul 15, 2019 · “Father Divine”, professing himself to be God incarnate, urged his followers to transcend race and poverty through the power of positive thinking. His message crossed racial lines because …

Father Divine, a Harlem-based minister, was worshiped as God on earth by members of his "Peace Mission" movement. Although widely derided as a cult "racketeer," Divine fed, sheltered, and helped …

Father Divine was the guiding theological, liturgical, scriptural, and administrative force behind the indigenous American religion he founded. While his adherents never associated him with a legal birth …

Father Divine's followers believed that he embodied the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Mainstream Americans scoffed at this small African-American deity, but many in black America thought he...

Father Divine was sentenced to one year in prison, after which he moved to Harlem, where he had many followers. During the Great Depression, he became more political calling for an end to school …

“There is much to be said and a great deal to be learned about The International Peace Mission Movement and it’s founder and Pastor Father Divine, since it began to take form in 1932.”

Hickerson argued that everyone is divine, whereas Father Divine came to the conclusion that he alone was the true expression of God’s Spirit. Their collaboration ended in 1912.

Feb 20, 2019 · Father Divine: Charismatic cult leader or civil rights pioneer? Why Father Divine, the man behind the iconic Divine Lorraine Hotel on North Broad Street in Philadelphia, left a complicated legacy.