Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. Baltimore ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Minutes of the ... Session of the Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. Baltimore ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for the Year ...
Author: Minutes of the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church ... Session
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. New York ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1630
Book Description
The Virginia Conference Annual ...
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Virginia ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Our Southern Zion
Author: Erskine ClarkePublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817357882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
An exploration of the ways a particular religious tradition and a distinct social context have interacted over a 300-year period, including the unique story of the oldest and largest African American Calvinist community in America The South Carolina low country has long been regarded—not only in popular imagination and paperback novels but also by respected scholars—as a region dominated by what earlier historians called “a cavalier spirit” and by what later historians have simply described as “a wholehearted devotion to amusement and the neglect of religion and intellectual pursuits.” Such images of the low country have been powerful interpreters of the region because they have had some foundation in social and cultural realities. It is a thesis of this study, however, that there has been a strong Calvinist community in the Carolina low country since its establishment as a British colony and that this community (including in its membership both whites and after the 1740s significant numbers of African Americans) contradicts many of the images of the "received version" of the region. Rather than a devotion to amusement and a neglect of religion and intellectual interests, this community has been marked throughout most of its history by its disciplined religious life, its intellectual pursuits, and its work ethic.
The Christian Advocate
Author: Minutes of the Annual Conferences
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, SouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Minutes of the ... Session of the New Jersey Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. New Jersey ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Come Shouting to Zion
Author: Sylvia R. FreyPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807861588
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred. Using an extraordinary array of archival sources, Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood chart the course of religious conversion from the transference of traditional African religions to the New World through the growth of Protestant Christianity in the American South and British Caribbean up to 1830. Come Shouting to Zion depicts religious transformation as a complex reciprocal movement involving black and white Christians. It highlights the role of African American preachers in the conversion process and demonstrates the extent to which African American women were responsible for developing distinctive ritual patterns of worship and divergent moral values within the black spiritual community. Finally, the book sheds light on the ways in which, by serving as a channel for the assimilation of Western culture into the slave quarters, Protestant Christianity helped transform Africans into African Americans.