Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
Series |
Religion and American culture |
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Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
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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. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
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Subject |
Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention -- History.
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Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention. (OCoLC)fst01660324
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African American Baptists -- Alabama -- History.
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African American Baptists.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Baptist.
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African American Baptists. (OCoLC)fst00798965
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Alabama. (OCoLC)fst01204694
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Baptisten.
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Schwarze.
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Alabama.
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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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.) |
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0817380302 (electronic bk.) |
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