MOVE: An American Religion

What is a religion? That is the question that Richard Kent Evans attempts to answer in this book. He does so through the story of MOVE, a little-known group with a fascinating story.

MOVE emerged in Philadelphia in the early 1970s. It was a small, mostly African American group devoted to the teachings of John Africa. In 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department — working in concert with federal and state law enforcement — attacked a home that "MOVE people" as they preferred to be known, shar...