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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972843003321

Autore

Owens A

Titolo

Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century : Rhetoric of Identification / / by A. Owens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

9781349466214

1349466212

9781137342379

1137342374

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Collana

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice, , 2945-6983

Disciplina

287.83

Soggetti

Religion - History

Race

Methodism

Theology

African Americans

Culture

Christianity

History of Religion

Race and Ethnicity Studies

Christian Theology

African American Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rhetoric of identity : the African Methodist Episcopal Church and what it means to be children of God and children of Ham -- It is salvation we want : the path to spiritual redemption and social uplift -- Saving the heathen : the AMEC and it's Africanist discourse -- Africa for Christ : the voice of mission and African redemption -- We have been believers : revisiting AMEC rhetoric of evangelical Christianity.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children of



Ham, and how the denomination relied on both the rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism.