Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Conferences. Little Rock, ArkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Minutes of the Session of the Little Rock Annual Conference
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Conferences. Little Rock, ArkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Minutes of the Annual Conferences
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, SouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for the Year ...
Author: General Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the United Methodist Church
Author: United Methodist Church (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Annual State Conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Arkansas
Author: The African Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Dennis C. DickersonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108775624
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
In this book, Dennis C. Dickerson examines the long history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and its intersection with major social movements over more than two centuries. Beginning as a religious movement in the late eighteenth century, the African Methodist Episcopal Church developed as a freedom advocate for blacks in the Atlantic World. Governance of a proud black ecclesia often clashed with its commitment to and resources for fighting slavery, segregation, and colonialism, thus limiting the full realization of the church's emancipationist ethos. Dickerson recounts how this black institution nonetheless weathered the inexorable demands produced by the Civil War, two world wars, the civil rights movement, African decolonization, and women's empowerment, resulting in its global prominence in the contemporary world. His book also integrates the history of African Methodism within the broader historical landscape of American and African-American history.
Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Methodist Episcopal ChurchPublisher:
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Category : Methodist conferences
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Christian Citizens
Author: Elizabeth L. JemisonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469659700
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began. Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South, Elizabeth L. Jemison shows how southerners, black and white, drew on biblical narratives as the basis for very different political imaginaries during and after Reconstruction. Focusing on everyday Protestants in the Mississippi River Valley, Jemison scours their biblical thinking and religious attitudes toward race. She argues that the evangelical groups that dominated this portion of the South shaped contesting visions of black and white rights. Black evangelicals saw the argument for their identities as Christians and as fully endowed citizens supported by their readings of both the Bible and U.S. law. The Bible, as they saw it, prohibited racial hierarchy, and Amendments 13, 14, and 15 advanced equal rights. Countering this, white evangelicals continued to emphasize a hierarchical paternalistic order that, shorn of earlier justifications for placing whites in charge of blacks, now fell into the defense of an increasingly violent white supremacist social order. They defined aspects of Christian identity so as to suppress black equality—even praying, as Jemison documents, for wisdom in how to deny voting rights to blacks. This religious culture has played into remarkably long-lasting patterns of inequality and segregation.
Proceedings of the ... Annual Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
Author: Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (U.S.). ConferencePublisher:
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Category : Uniform state laws
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
After Redemption
Author: John M. GiggiePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190293888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
After Redemption fills in a missing chapter in the history of African American life after freedom. It takes on the widely overlooked period between the end of Reconstruction and World War I to examine the sacred world of ex-slaves and their descendants living in the region more densely settled than any other by blacks living in this era, the Mississippi and Arkansas Delta. Drawing on a rich range of local memoirs, newspaper accounts, photographs, early blues music, and recently unearthed Works Project Administration records, John Giggie challenges the conventional view that this era marked the low point in the modern evolution of African-American religion and culture. Set against a backdrop of escalating racial violence in a region more densely populated by African Americans than any other at the time, he illuminates how blacks adapted to the defining features of the post-Reconstruction South-- including the growth of segregation, train travel, consumer capitalism, and fraternal orders--and in the process dramatically altered their spiritual ideas and institutions. Masterfully analyzing these disparate elements, Giggie's study situates the African-American experience in the broadest context of southern, religious, and American history and sheds new light on the complexity of black religion and its role in confronting Jim Crow.