Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. North Texas Annual ConferencePublisher:
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Minutes of the ... Annual Session of the North Texas Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. North Texas Annual ConferencePublisher:
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Minutes of the Annual Conference
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, SouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Methodist Episcopal ChurchPublisher:
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Category : Methodist conferences
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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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.
Minutes Taken at the Several Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America
Author: Methodist Episcopal ChurchPublisher:
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Category : Methodist conferences
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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General Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the United Methodist Church in the United States, Territories, and Cuba
Author: Methodist Church (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
Author: James B. BennettPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691170843
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the scholarship on religion and race in the crucial decades between the end of Reconstruction and the eve of the Civil Rights movement. Drawing on a range of local and personal accounts from the post-Reconstruction period, newspapers, and church records, Bennett's analysis challenges the assumption that churches fell into fixed patterns of segregation without a fight. In sacred no less than secular spheres, establishing Jim Crow constituted a long, slow, and complicated journey that extended well into the twentieth century. Churches remained a source of hope and a means of resistance against segregation, rather than a retreat from racial oppression. Especially in the decade after Reconstruction, churches offered the possibility of creating a common identity that privileged religious over racial status, a pattern that black church members hoped would transfer to a national American identity transcending racial differences. Religion thus becomes a lens to reconsider patterns for racial interaction throughout Southern society. By tracing the contours of that hopeful yet ultimately tragic journey, this book reveals the complex and mutually influential relationship between church and society in the American South, placing churches at the center of the nation's racial struggles.
Annual Report of the Board of Missions of the M.E. Church, South
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Board of MissionsPublisher:
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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