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Uplifting the people : three centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama /
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, s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.