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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xii, 424 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and colonialism over several centuries to explain the relationship between empire and democratic freedom. Rather than treating freedom and its others (colonialism, slavery, and racism) as opposites, Sylvester A. Johnson interprets multiple periods of Black religious history to discern how Atlantic empires (particularly...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 704 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the 4th century AD, a new faith grew out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and resoundingly defeating a host of other rival belief systems. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion, ingrained within culture and society, exercised a monolithic hold over its population. But how did a small sect of isolated and intensely committed congregations become a mass movement centrally...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Tim Alberta, himself a practicing Christian and the son of a Presbyterian pastor, paints an expansive and troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement. Through the eyes of televangelists and small-town preachers, celebrity revivalists and everyday churchgoers, Alberta tells the story of a faith cheapened by ephemeral fear, a promise corrupted by partisan subterfuge, and a reputation stained by perpetual scandal" --
Author
Publisher
Worthy
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 236 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The American Church is changing in fundamental ways. That's not necessarily a bad thing. The United States is in the middle of an unprecedented spiritual, technological, demographic, political and social transformation- moving from an older, mostly white, mostly Protestant, religion-friendly society to a younger diverse, multiethnic, pluralistic culture, where no one faith group will have the advantage. At the same time, millions of Americans - including...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvi, 338 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In a sweeping analysis of religion in the post-Civil War and twentieth-century South, Freedom's Coming puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them. The seeds of subversion, Paul Harvey argues, were embedded in the passionate individualism, exuberant...
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
x, 345 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration - the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing on this phenomenon's religious and cultural implications, Milton C. Sernett breaks with traditional patterns of historiography that analyze the migration in terms of socioeconomic...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 242 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mary C. Tribble mines a journal and a trove of letters from the Special Collections and Archives of Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University to introduce a significant figure in North Carolina and Baptist history. The writings of Sally Merriam Wait reveal a northernborn woman with anti-slavery leanings engaging with an unfamiliar environment in the slave-holding South. Her ambition led her from young convert in revival-swept New England...
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