Uplifting the people [electronic resource]
لتكبير النص لتصغير النص- كتاب
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
العنوان |
Uplifting the people [electronic resource] : three centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama / Wilson Fallin, Jr. |
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الناشر |
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press |
تاريخ الإصدار |
c2007 |
ملاحظات |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
رقم الرف |
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. |
سلسلة |
Religion and American culture |
الشكل |
1 online resource (349 p.) |
اللغة |
الانكليزية |
رقم النظام |
997010713779205171 |
MARC RECORDS
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