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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fallin, Wilson, 1942-

Series:

Religion & American Culture

Religion and American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American Baptists--Alabama--History.

African American Baptists.

Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention--History.

Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

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. In examining

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8030-2

OCLC:

183289934