UID:
almafu_9959244290502883
Format:
1 online resource (349 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8173-8030-2
Series Statement:
Religion and American culture
Content:
Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention-its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders. Fallin demonstrates that a distinctive Afro-Baptist faith emerged as slaves in Alabama combined the African religious emphasis on spirit possession, soul-travel, and rebirth with the evangelical faith of Baptists. The denomination emphasizes a conversion experience that brings salvation, spiritual freedom, love, joy, and patience, and also stresses liberation from slavery and oppression and highlights the exodus experience. In examining
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Slaves, Afro-Baptist faith, and Black preachers -- God's gift of freedom -- Church life, expansion, and denominational concerns -- Education, Black nationalism, and sociopolitical concerns -- Theology and leadership -- Protest, growth, and revivalism -- Urbanization and economic self-help -- Between the wars -- Rising militancy -- Protest and reorganization -- Continuity, preservation, and challenge.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8173-1569-1
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=438170
