“Without the Body, Within the Flesh” returns to the Azusa Street Revival to narrate the synonymic suturing of Black with Pentecostal, marking a radical outside to Christianity, the nation-state, and the humanities. For Charles Parham, who was preoccupied with racialized and statist notions of peoplehood and purity, Azusa was pathological, abnormal, insane, a Negro camp meeting. As constitutive outside, Parham’s perjorative marks what French philosopher Michel Foucault calls the biopolitical: an order of power and knowledge that forms a group that lives, based on a constitutive outside other that dies. What has been subjugated in the forming of Pentecostal theologies, histories, and social scientific studies is the articulation of Anglo-Evangelical ‘man’ predicated on the excision of Pentecostal from Blackness, as Parham sutured it, and as those racialized as Black practiced it. My dissertation project argues that Pentecostalism is fundamentally Black, and its Blackness places it outside the ontology and epistemology of "proper" American Christianity. As the 1619 Project recasts American history from the position of Black Americans, my dissertation recasts American Christianity from the position of a tradition it excludes. The generative discourses that arise from this work will transform our understanding of the American churches and of Christianity itself.