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Author Fallin, Wilson, 1942-

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

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Series Religion and American culture
Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention and mdash;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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention -- History.
Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention. (OCoLC)fst01660324
African American Baptists -- Alabama -- History.
African American Baptists.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Baptist.
African American Baptists. (OCoLC)fst00798965
Alabama. (OCoLC)fst01204694
Baptisten.
Schwarze.
Alabama.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Fallin, Wilson, 1942- Uplifting the people. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007 9780817315696 0817315691 (DLC) 2006038420 (OCoLC)76786722
ISBN 9780817380304 (electronic bk.)
0817380302 (electronic bk.)
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