Uplifting the people three centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama
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| Sprache: | English |
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Tuscaloosa
University of Alabama Press
©2007
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| Schriftenreihe: | Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
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| Beschreibung: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references and index 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 Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention & mdash;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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 332 pages, [5] pages of plates) |
| ISBN: | 0817380302 9780817380304 |