James Tinney ( – June 12, 1988) was an

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historian and minister who specialized in

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, specifically religious and political movements. He also founded Faith Temple, a Black LGBT congregation in

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. He received his Ph.D. in 1978 from

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, where he would go on to teach before his death. Tinney founded the first scholarly journal about Black

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, ''Spirit: A Journal of Issues Incident in Black Pentecostalism''. He died in 1988 at the age of 46 from

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complications.

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Yvonne Patricia Chireau. ''Black Majic''. p. 193
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