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Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century : Rhetoric of Identification / by A. Owens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Owens, A., Author.
- Series:
- Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice, 2945-6983
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion--History.
- Religion.
- Race.
- Methodism.
- Theology.
- African Americans.
- Culture.
- Christianity.
- History of Religion.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Christian Theology.
- African American Culture.
- Local Subjects:
- History of Religion.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Methodism.
- Christian Theology.
- African American Culture.
- Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children of Ham, and how the denomination relied on both the rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism.
- Contents:
- Rhetoric of identity : the African Methodist Episcopal Church and what it means to be children of God and children of Ham
- It is salvation we want : the path to spiritual redemption and social uplift
- Saving the heathen : the AMEC and it's Africanist discourse
- Africa for Christ : the voice of mission and African redemption
- We have been believers : revisiting AMEC rhetoric of evangelical Christianity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349466214
- 1349466212
- 9781137342379
- 1137342374
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