The Alabama Baptist Historian
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 676
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wayne Flynt
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780817309275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive history of the dominant religious group within the state during the last two centuries
Author: Hosea Holcombe
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Benjamin Franklin Riley
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wilson Fallin
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2007-08-17
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0817315691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUplifting 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.
Author: George E. Bagley
Publisher: Birmingham, Ala. : Alabama Baptist Historical Commission
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wayne Flynt
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2004-10-10
Total Pages: 621
ISBN-13: 081731430X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA native son and accomplished historian does not flinch from pointing out Alabama's failures from the past 100 years; neither is he restrained in calling attention to the state's triumphs in this authoritative, popular history of the past 100 years.
Author: Wayne Flynt
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2011-09-02
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 0817317546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWayne Flynt tells the story of his life and his courageous battles against an indifferent or hostile power structure with modesty but always with honesty. In doing so he tells us the story of how Alabama institutions really are manipulated, and why we should care.
Author: Thomas S. Kidd
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0199977542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Puritans called Baptists "the troublers of churches in all places" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in America, and their influence matches their numbers. They have built strong institutions, from megachurches to publishing houses to charities to mission organizations, and have firmly established themselves in the mainstream of American culture. Yet the historical legacy of outsider status lingers, and the inherently fractured nature of their faith makes Baptists ever wary of threats from within as well as without. In Baptists in America, Thomas S. Kidd and Barry Hankins explore the long-running tensions between church, state, and culture that Baptists have shaped and navigated. Despite the moment of unity that their early persecution provided, their history has been marked by internal battles and schisms that were microcosms of national events, from the conflict over slavery that divided North from South to the conservative revolution of the 1970s and 80s. Baptists have made an indelible impact on American religious and cultural history, from their early insistence that America should have no established church to their place in the modern-day culture wars, where they frequently advocate greater religious involvement in politics. Yet the more mainstream they have become, the more they have been pressured to conform to the mainstream, a paradox that defines--and is essential to understanding--the Baptist experience in America. Kidd and Hankins, both practicing Baptists, weave the threads of Baptist history alongside those of American history. Baptists in America is a remarkable story of how one religious denomination was transformed from persecuted minority into a leading actor on the national stage, with profound implications for American society and culture.
Author: Eva Nell Hunter
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
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