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Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for the Year ...
Author: Minutes of the Annual Conferences
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, SouthPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church
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Category : Methodist conferences
Languages : en
Pages : 976
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To Raise Up the South
Author: Sally G. McMillenPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807127490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In the half century after the Civil War, evangelical southerners turned increasingly to Sunday schools as a means of rejuvenating their destitute region and adjusting to an ever-modernizing world. By educating children -- and later adults -- in Sunday school and exposing them to Christian teachings, biblical truths, and exemplary behavior, southerners felt certain that a better world would emerge and cast aside the death and destruction wrought by the Civil War. In To Raise Up the South, Sally G. McMillen offers an examination of Sunday schools in seven black and white denominations and reveals their vital role in the larger quest for southen redemption. McMillen begins by explaining how the schools were established, detailing northern missionaries' collaboration in their creation and the eventual southern resistance to this northern aid. She then turns to the classroom, discussing the roles of church officials, teachers, ministers, and parents in the effort to raise pious children; the different functions of men and women; and the social benefits of such participation. Though denominations of both races saw Sunday schools as a way to increase their numbers and mold their children, white southerners rarely raised the race issue in the classroom. Black evangelicals, on the other hand, used their Sunday schools to discuss and decry Jim Crow laws, rising violence, and widespread injustices. Integrating the study of race, class, gender, and religion, To Raise Up the South provides an exciting new lens through which to view the turbulent years of Reconstruction and the emergence of the New South. It charts the rise of an institution that became a mainstay in the lives of millions of southerners.
Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for the Years ...
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, SouthPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, SouthPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the Years 1773-1881
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. ConferencesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Minutes
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. Ohio ConferencePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 620
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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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The Times Were Strange and Stirring
Author: Reginald F. HildebrandPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822316398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
With the conclusion of the Civil War, the beginnings of Reconstruction, and the realities of emancipation, former slaves were confronted with the possibility of freedom and, with it, a new way of life. In The Times Were Strange and Stirring, Reginald F. Hildebrand examines the role of the Methodist Church in the process of emancipation—and in shaping a new world at a unique moment in American, African American, and Methodist history. Hildebrand explores the ideas and ideals of missionaries from several branches of Methodism—the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, and the northern-based Methodist Episcopal Church—and the significant and highly charged battle waged between them over the challenge and meaning of freedom. He traces the various strategies and goals pursued by these competing visions and develops a typology of some of the ways in which emancipation was approached and understood. Focusing on individual church leaders such as Lucius H. Holsey, Richard Harvey Cain, and Gilbert Haven, and with the benefit of extensive research in church archives and newspapers, Hildebrand tells the dramatic and sometimes moving story of how missionaries labored to organize their denominations in the black South, and of how they were overwhelmed at times by the struggles of freedom.