Author: Union County Baptist Association (S.C.)Publisher:
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Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Minutes of the ... Annual Session
Author: Union County Baptist Association (S.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Politics and Religion in the White South
Author: Glenn FeldmanPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813171733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Politics, while always an integral part of the daily life in the South, took on a new level of importance after the Civil War. Today, political strategists view the South as an essential region to cultivate if political hopefuls are to have a chance of winning elections at the national level. Although operating within the context of a secular government, American politics is decidedly marked by a Christian influence. In the mostly Protestant South, religion and politics have long been nearly inextricable. Politics and Religion in the White South skillfully examines the powerful role that religious considerations and influence have played in American political discourse. This collection of thirteen essays from prominent historians and political scientists explores the intersection in the South of religion, politics, race relations, and southern culture from post–Civil War America to the present, when the Religious Right has exercised a profound impact on the course of politics in the region as well as the nation. The authors examine issues such as religious attitudes about race on the Jim Crow South; Billy Graham’s influence on the civil rights movement; political activism and the Southern Baptist Convention; and Dorothy Tilly, a white Methodist woman, and her contributions as a civil rights reformer during the 1940s and 1950s. The volume also considers the issue of whether southerners felt it was their sacred duty to prevent American society from moving away from its Christian origins toward a new, secular identity and how this perceived God-given responsibility was reflected in the work of southern political and church leaders. By analyzing the vital relationship between religion and politics in the region where their connection is strongest and most evident, Politics and Religion in the White South offers insight into the conservatism of the South and the role that religion has played in maintaining its social and cultural traditionalism.
Minutes of the ... Annual Meeting of the Baptist Convention of the State of Michigan
Author: Baptist Convention of the State of MichiganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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History of the First Baptist Church of Taylors, South Carolina
Author: Jean Martin FlynnPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Righteous Discontent
Author: Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674254392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham gives us our first full account of the crucial role of black women in making the church a powerful institution for social and political change in the black community. Between 1880 and 1920, the black church served as the most effective vehicle by which men and women alike, pushed down by racism and poverty, regrouped and rallied against emotional and physical defeat. Focusing on the National Baptist Convention, the largest religious movement among black Americans, Higginbotham shows us how women were largely responsible for making the church a force for self-help in the black community. In her account, we see how the efforts of women enabled the church to build schools, provide food and clothing to the poor, and offer a host of social welfare services. And we observe the challenges of black women to patriarchal theology. Class, race, and gender dynamics continually interact in Higginbotham’s nuanced history. She depicts the cooperation, tension, and negotiation that characterized the relationship between men and women church leaders as well as the interaction of southern black and northern white women’s groups. Higginbotham’s history is at once tough-minded and engaging. It portrays the lives of individuals within this movement as lucidly as it delineates feminist thinking and racial politics. She addresses the role of black Baptist women in contesting racism and sexism through a “politics of respectability” and in demanding civil rights, voting rights, equal employment, and educational opportunities. Righteous Discontent finally assigns women their rightful place in the story of political and social activism in the black church. It is central to an understanding of African American social and cultural life and a critical chapter in the history of religion in America.
Minutes of the Annual Meeting
Author: Women's Baptist Home Mission SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Black Charlestonians
Author: Bernard E. PowersPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610750705
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
This revisionist work delineates the major social and economic contours of the large black population in the pivotal Southern city of Charleston, South Carolina., historic seaport center for the slave trade. It draws upon census data, manuscript collections, and newspaper accounts to expand our knowledge of this particular community of nineteenth-century black urbanites. Although the federal government codified the rights of African-Americans into law following the Civil War, it was the initiatives taken by black men and women that actually transformed the theoretical benefits of emancipation into clear achievement. Because of its large free black population, Charleston provided a case study of black social class stratification and social mobility even before the war. Reconstruction only emphasized that stratification, and Powers examines in detail the aspirations and concessions that shaped the lives of the newly freed blacks, who were led by a black upper class tat sometimes seemed more inclined to emulate white social mores than act as a vanguard for fundamental social change. Unlike most Reconstruction studies, which concentrate on politics, Black Charlestonians explores the era’s vital socioeconomic challenges for blacks as they emerged into full citizenship in an important city in the South. Choice’s 1996 Outstanding Academic Books List
A Strong Tower
Author: Joe Dew KinardJournal of the Annual Session of the National Baptist Convention
Author: National Baptist Convention of the United States of AmericaPublisher:
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Category : African American Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Annual of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention
Author: Baptist State Convention of North CarolinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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