| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Religion and American culture |
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Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention fast |
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African American Baptists -- Alabama -- History
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Baptist.
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African American Baptists
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Baptisten
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Alabama
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Alabama
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Schwärze
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817380304 |
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0817380302 |
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