This path was created by Craig Dietrich. The last update was by Will Luers.
About The Father Divine Project
The Father Divine Project is the effort of Dr. Leonard Norman Primiano and Will Luers to make public, maintain, and interpret selections from the enormous archive of a still-active, but aging, American religion. The interpretative lenses focus on the expressive culture of this distinctive religious community as evidenced in the archive's media artifacts. Ethnographic video documentation, as well as scholarly essays, provide both an artful and scholarly context for the movement. This digital archive presents the viewer, both lay and expert, with the opportunity to understand a complex story of race, religion and intentional communal living as experienced by the followers of one of the most unusual, and yet distinctively American, expressions of faith in United States religious history.