Uplifting the People - Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama

Informationen zum Autor Wilson Fallin Jr . is Professor of History at the University of Montevallo and is the author of The African American Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1815-1963: A Shelter in the Storm. He is also president of Birmingham-Easonian Baptist Bible College and has also served as Convention Historian for the National Baptist Convention USA. Klappentext "Uplifting the People" is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention--its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders. A distinctive Afro-Baptist faith emerged as African religious emphasis on spirit possession, soul-travel, and rebirth combined with evangelical faith. This book presents the history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention - its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders. It also explores the role of women.

Product details

• Authors: Wilson Fallin
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.08.2007
• EAN: 9780817315696
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1569-6
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 248 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Religion and American Culture; Religion and American Culture; Religion & American Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous