A will to choose; the origins of African American Methodism.9780742552654 A will to choose; the origins of African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. Methodism. Melton, J. Gordon. Rowman & Littlefield 2007 317 pages $29.95 Paperback BX8435 Melton (Institute for the Study of American Religion, Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara is a city in California, United States. It is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 92,325. ) traces the history of African American Methodists from the colonial period and the early national period through the Civil War to the organizational discontinuities that followed it. While taking account of the larger and more widely studied churches in the movement, he focuses on members of the Methodist Episcopal Church The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, officially began at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784. Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke were the first bishops. and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South The Methodist Episcopal Church, South was the so-called "Southern Methodist Church" resulting from the split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference held in Louisville, after 1845. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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