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Uplifting the people : three centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama / Wilson Fallin, Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)Publication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780817380304
  • 0817380302
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Uplifting the people.DDC classification:
  • 286/.176108996073 22
LOC classification:
  • BX6444.A6 F35 2007eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Slaves, Afro-Baptist faith, and Black preachers -- God's gift of freedom -- Church life, expansion, and denominational concerns -- Education, Black nationalism, and sociopolitical concerns -- Theology and leadership -- Protest, growth, and revivalism -- Urbanization and economic self-help -- Between the wars -- Rising militancy -- Protest and reorganization -- Continuity, preservation, and challenge.
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Summary: Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention - its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders. Fallin demonstrates that a distinctive Afro-Baptist faith emerged as slaves in Alabama combined the African religious emphasis on spirit possession, soul-travel, and rebirth with the evangelical faith of Baptists. The denomination emphasizes a conversion experience that brings salvation, spiritual freedom, love, joy, and patience, and also stresses liberation from slavery and oppression and highlights the exodus experience.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)209762

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Slaves, Afro-Baptist faith, and Black preachers -- God's gift of freedom -- Church life, expansion, and denominational concerns -- Education, Black nationalism, and sociopolitical concerns -- Theology and leadership -- Protest, growth, and revivalism -- Urbanization and economic self-help -- Between the wars -- Rising militancy -- Protest and reorganization -- Continuity, preservation, and challenge.

Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention - its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders. Fallin demonstrates that a distinctive Afro-Baptist faith emerged as slaves in Alabama combined the African religious emphasis on spirit possession, soul-travel, and rebirth with the evangelical faith of Baptists. The denomination emphasizes a conversion experience that brings salvation, spiritual freedom, love, joy, and patience, and also stresses liberation from slavery and oppression and highlights the exodus experience.

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