As an American sectarian religion, The Peace Mission Movement and its leader Father Divine, were interna-tionally known in the mid-twentieth century primarily through media controversy. Radio, newsreels, newspa-pers focused on the African American leader whose followers believed was an incarnation of God. The Peace Mission used this public attention, as well as their own media documentation (including wire and tape recordings, print, film, and photography), to promote their causes of racial integration and personal empowerment to outsiders. The Peace Mission members also sacramentalized these photographs, film, and sound recordings and used them within their own religious rituals and practices to maintain contact with Father Divine, their

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