Author: Wayne FlyntPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817309275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The definitive history of the dominant religious group within the state during the last two centuries
Alabama Baptists
Author: Wayne FlyntPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817309275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The definitive history of the dominant religious group within the state during the last two centuries
Uplifting the People
Author: Wilson FallinPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817315691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
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 the social and theological development of the Afro-Baptist faith over the course of three centuries, Uplifting the People demonstrates how black Baptists in Alabama used faith to cope with hostility and repression. Fallin reveals that black Baptist churches were far more than places of worship. They functioned as self-help institutions within black communities and served as gathering places for social clubs, benevolent organizations, and political meetings. Church leaders did more than conduct services; they protested segregation and disfranchisement, founded and operated schools, and provided community leaders for the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century. Through black churches, members built banking systems, insurance companies, and welfare structures. Since the gains of the civil rights era, black Baptists have worked to maintain the accomplishments of that struggle, church leaders continue to speak for social justice and the rights of the poor, and churches now house day care and Head Start programs. Uplifting the People also explores the role of women, the relations between black and white Baptists, and class formation within the black church.
The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama
Author: Charles Octavius BoothePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Annual of the Alabama Baptist State Convention
Author: Alabama Baptist State ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Annual of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, Containing Proceedings of the ... Session, List of Ordained Ministers, Minutes of Alabama Baptist Ministerial Benefit Society, Ministers' Conference and Statistical Tables
Author: Baptists. Alabama. ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Alabama
Author: Hosea HolcombePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Alabama Baptist
Author: The Alabama BaptistPublisher:
ISBN: 9780999552421
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Memorial History of the Baptists of Alabama
Author: Benjamin Franklin RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama: Their Leaders and Their Work
Author: Charles Octavius BoothePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Cyclopedia of Colored Baptists contains a list of baptist clergy in Alabama. You will marvel at the variety of interesting and less accessible photos and biographies of African American Baptist ministers and pastors. Contents: State Conventions, Associations, Biographic Sketches, cont.
Tracing Your Alabama Past
Author: Robert Scott DavisPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617035241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Searching for your Alabama ancestors? Looking for historical facts? Dates? Events? This book will lead you to the places where you'll find answers. Here are hundreds of direct sources--governmental, archival, agency, online--that will help you access information vital to your investigation. Tracing Your Alabama Past sets out to identify the means and the methods for finding information on people, places, subjects, and events in the long and colorful history of this state known as the crossroads of Dixie. It takes researchers directly to the sources that deliver answers and information. This comprehensive reference book leads to the wide array of essential facts and data--public records, census figures, military statistics, geography, studies of African American and Native American communities, local and biographical history, internet sites, archives, and more. For the first time Alabama researchers are offered a how-to book that is not just a bibliography. Such complex sources as Alabama's biographical/genealogical materials, federal land records, Civil WarÂ-era resources, and Native American sources are discussed in detail, along with many other topics of interest to researchers seeking information on this diverse Deep South state. Much of the book focuses on national sources that are covered elsewhere only in passing, if at all. Other books only touch on one subject area, but here, for the first time, are directions to the Who, What, When, Where, and Why.