African Methodist Episcopal Church

African Methodist Episcopal Church

A History

Dickerson, Dennis C (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)

Cambridge University Press

11/2019

Mole

Inglês

9780521153966

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This book examines the long history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and its intersection with abolitionism, the Civil War and Reconstruction, two world wars, the civil rights movement, women's empowerment, and the denomination's increased global presence.
Introduction; 1. Richard Allen and the rise of African Methodism in the Atlantic World, 1760-1831; 2. The freedom church, 1831-1861; 3. 'Welcomed and ransomed', 1861-1880; 4. A denomination in the diaspora, 1880-1916; 5. Into the second century; 6. Freedom now!; 7. Becoming a global church, 1976-2018; Epilogue.