ABSTRACT
establishes a direct correlation between the establishment of New Orleans’ first Spiritualist Church in 1920 and the origin of a politico-spiritual approach to social injustice. The chapter considers social and spiritual initiatives that were orchestrated by Mother Leafy Anderson (founder of Eternal Life Christian Spiritualist Church) and carried out through her church. Attention is given to Mother Anderson’s implementation of a program of economic development and of an organized doctrine of prophecy and healing meant to provide economic stability and spiritual wholeness to marginalized persons living in New Orleans.
