Redeeming the South
Redeeming the South

Author: Paul Harvey

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0807861952

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Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped the South. Adopting a biracial and bicultural focus, Paul Harvey works to redefine southern religious history, and by extension southern culture, as the product of such interaction--the result of whites and blacks having drawn from and influenced each other even while remaining separate and distinct. Harvey explores the parallels and divergences of black and white religious institutions as manifested through differences in worship styles, sacred music, and political agendas. He examines the relationship of broad social phenomena like progressivism and modernization to the development of southern religion, focusing on the clash between rural southern folk religious expression and models of spirituality drawn from northern Victorian standards. In tracing the growth of Baptist churches from small outposts of radically democratic plain-folk religion in the mid-eighteenth century to conservative and culturally dominant institutions in the twentieth century, Harvey explores one of the most impressive evolutions of American religious and cultural history.

Black Baptists and African Missions
Black Baptists and African Missions

Author: Sandy Dwayne Martin

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780865543539

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Traces the origins and developments of black Baptist interest in the Southern states and their efforts to evangelize West Africa in particular, and also considers this activity as an example of the use of religious themes by black Americans in order to give their disadvantaged conditions meanings and to suggest avenues and principles for their own liberation. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dark Salutations
Dark Salutations

Author: Riggins Renal Earl

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2001-08-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1563383586

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Although Henry Louis Gates examined the ways in which African slave language formed the metaphors for African American poetry and fiction in The Signifying Monkey, there have been no studies of the theological and ethical significance of the salutations of black Americans until now. In Dark Salutations, Riggins Earl examines black American's ethnocentric verbalized salutary expressions-"brotherman" and "sistergirl," for example-that dominate their ritualistic moments of social encounter. The noticeable religious content of some of these salutations drives us to examine blacks' understandings of God and brother/sisterhood challenges: Is God a respecter of persons? Or, have black people understood God to be "faithfully for them and with them" politically and spiritually? Have black people understood themselves to be "trustfully for and with" each other spiritually and politically? Have black people understood themselves to be "trustfully for and with" even the whites who oppressed them? Earl argues that these salutary expressions show how blacks have lived with the burdensome challenge of having to prove their sisterly and brotherly capacities, and with the insatiable desire to be treated as equal siblings in the family of God. .

The End
The End

Author: Herbert E. Douglass

Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781572582170

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This book focuses on how all Christians should relate to the current worldwide emphasis on the end of the world, and reviews the various conflicting voices within Christianity describing how and when the end will come, including Noah's experiences before the flood, Jesus' description of people ready for His return, and the practical questions Seventh-day Adventists the world over today are now discussing.