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Abingdon Press The Correspondence of the Rev. Charles Wesley M.A. Volume 2
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Abingdon Press Wesleyan VileTality
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Abingdon Press Entangled
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Abingdon Press The Christian as Minister
£22.50
Abingdon Press Answering the Call
£21.15
Abingdon Press El Cristiano como Ministro
£14.24
Abingdon Press The United Methodist Clergy Book of Firsts
£16.15
Abingdon Press From Relief to Empowerment
£17.09
Benediction Classics John Wesley's Notes on the Whole Bible: Old Testament, Ezra-Malachi
£28.46
Benediction Classics John Wesley's Notes on the Whole Bible: Old Testament, Genesis-Chronicles II
£31.42
Sacristy Press Making Connections: Exploring Methodist Deacons'
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Market Square Publishing Launching Leaders
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Market Square Publishing Dream Like Jesus
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Market Square Books Strategy Matters
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Innovating for Love
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Followers Under 40
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Radically Blessed
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Hope An Advent Journey
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Ashes to Alleluia
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Wesley Heritage Foundation, Inc Las Obras de Juan Wesley Tomo XIV
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The Wesley Heritage Foundation, Inc Estas doctrinas enseño
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp From the Vault
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Dr. William Myers The Prison Epistles
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Independently Published Pray Love Serve Grow
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Martin Luthers Small Catechism
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Preaching Partners
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Independently Published Geneva Bible 1560 Edition with Apocrypha
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University of Illinois Press Music and the Wesleys Music and the Wesleys
Book SynopsisThe music, religion, and relationships of the exceptional Wesley familyTrade Review"A major contribution to our understanding of church music, the Wesley family, and concert life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by leading experts in the field. There is truly no competitor for this volume."--David W. Music, author of Christian Hymnody in Twentieth-Century Britain and America: An Annotated Bibliography"Excellent collection of essays. . . . The Wesley family was a remarkable dynasty and Music and the Wesleys is a significant contribution to the examination of their legacy."--The Journal of the Association of Anglican MusiciansTable of ContentsEditors' Preface vii Family Tree ix Abbreviations xi Introduction xiiiNicholas Temperley PART 1: MUSIC AND METHODISM 1. John Wesley, Music, and the People Called Methodists 3Nicholas Temperley 2. Charles Wesley and the Music of Poetry 26J. R. Watson 3. Psalms and Hymns and Hymns and Sacred Poems: Two Strands of Wesleyan Hymn Collections 41Robin A. Leaver 4. John Frederick Lampe's Hymns on the Great Festivals and Other Occasions 52 Martin V. Clarke 5. Methodist Anthems: The Set Piece in English Psalmody (1750-1850) 52Sally Drage 6. The Music of Methodism in Nineteenth-Century America 77Anne Bagnall Yardley 7. Eucharistic Piety in American Methodist Hymnody (1786-1889) 88Geoffrey C. Moore 8. The Musical Settings of Charles Wesley's Hymns (1742 to 2008) 103Carlton R. YoungPART 2: THE WESLEY MUSICIANS 9. Style, Will, and the Environment: Three Composers at Odds with History 121Stephen Banfield 10. Charles Wesley's Family and the Musical Life of Bristol 141Jonathan Barry 11. Pictorial Precocity: John Russell's Portraits of Charles and Samuel Wesley 154Peter S. Forsaith 12. Harmony and Discord in the Wesley Family Concerts 164Alyson McLamore 13. Father and Sons: Charles, Samuel, and Charles the Younger 175Philip Olleson 14. Samuel Wesley as an Antiquarian Composer 183Peter Holman 15. The Anthem Texts and Word Setting of Sebastian Wesley 200Peter Horton 16. The Legacy of Sebastian Wesley 216Stephen Banfield and Nicholas Temperley Appendix 1: Catalogue of Compositions by Charles Wesley the Younger 231 Methodist Hymnals Cited 242 Bibliography 245 Contributors 263 Index 267
£81.90
University of Illinois Press Women Work and Worship in Lincolns Country
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A wonderful achievement consisting of a trove of letters from a family living plain lives in central Illinois in the middle of the nineteenth century. Plain lives? Very many deaths from cholera and measles and other means, family strains, feuds, the moral rigor of the Methodist Church, and then the war came. People wear out. There's material here for a dozen novels: 'Mr. Pitner was turned out of the church in March, for selling men and women into perpetual bondage, as the people said. He takes it very hard, he says he has had a great deal of trouble, and we know he has for his sister was burned to death, and his two sons was drowned just at the time they began to be of some service to him but he says that this afaire hurts him worse than all the others, as he knows he is innocent of the charges brought against him. . .'"--Ward Just"Meticulously edited, the Dumville family letters vividly evoke everyday life for ordinary women in mid-19th century rural America. As the writers describe their hopes, dreams, and fates, this unique archive lets us hear voices that are often silenced, neglected or simply lost."--Robert Dingwall, chair of the American Sociological Association ™s Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis"A very useful discussion of women's place in rural Midwestern communities; the impact of the Civil War on family life; and the texture of life in these small, central Illinois towns. I don't know of any other collection quite like it."--Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, author of Always Plenty to Do: Growing Up on a Farm in the Long Ago"The editors have a good understanding of everyday life in the rural Midwest in the mid-nineteenth century. The conclusions they draw are based solidly on the evidence provided by the letters and are informed by scholarship in the field."--Marilyn F. Motz, coeditor of Making the American Home: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Material Culture, 1840–1940"Anne M. Heinz and John P. Heinz show the impact and importance of family letters. . . . This work introduces the reader to the world of everyday people hanging onto their faith to see them through a tough time in American history."--Journal of Illinois History"A remarkable story of the everyday lives and extraordinary events of mid-nineteenth century America. The editors have made a strong case for the vibrancy and historical significance of women's personal writings. . . . Like intellectual fingerprints on the ledger of history, each letter reveals the distinctiveness of each woman's view of herself and the world around her. Thanks to the solid editorial work by the Heinzs, the voices of commoners, of lower-class people, of women in the American heartland struggling to control their destinies, are now heard and cherished."--Civil War Book Review
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University of Illinois Press Music and the Wesleys
Book SynopsisThe music, religion, and relationships of the exceptional Wesley familyTrade Review"A major contribution to our understanding of church music, the Wesley family, and concert life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by leading experts in the field. There is truly no competitor for this volume."--David W. Music, author of Christian Hymnody in Twentieth-Century Britain and America: An Annotated Bibliography"Excellent collection of essays. . . . The Wesley family was a remarkable dynasty and Music and the Wesleys is a significant contribution to the examination of their legacy."--The Journal of the Association of Anglican MusiciansTable of ContentsEditors' Preface vii Family Tree ix Abbreviations xi Introduction xiiiNicholas Temperley PART 1: MUSIC AND METHODISM 1. John Wesley, Music, and the People Called Methodists 3Nicholas Temperley 2. Charles Wesley and the Music of Poetry 26J. R. Watson 3. Psalms and Hymns and Hymns and Sacred Poems: Two Strands of Wesleyan Hymn Collections 41Robin A. Leaver 4. John Frederick Lampe's Hymns on the Great Festivals and Other Occasions 52 Martin V. Clarke 5. Methodist Anthems: The Set Piece in English Psalmody (1750-1850) 52Sally Drage 6. The Music of Methodism in Nineteenth-Century America 77Anne Bagnall Yardley 7. Eucharistic Piety in American Methodist Hymnody (1786-1889) 88Geoffrey C. Moore 8. The Musical Settings of Charles Wesley's Hymns (1742 to 2008) 103Carlton R. YoungPART 2: THE WESLEY MUSICIANS 9. Style, Will, and the Environment: Three Composers at Odds with History 121Stephen Banfield 10. Charles Wesley's Family and the Musical Life of Bristol 141Jonathan Barry 11. Pictorial Precocity: John Russell's Portraits of Charles and Samuel Wesley 154Peter S. Forsaith 12. Harmony and Discord in the Wesley Family Concerts 164Alyson McLamore 13. Father and Sons: Charles, Samuel, and Charles the Younger 175Philip Olleson 14. Samuel Wesley as an Antiquarian Composer 183Peter Holman 15. The Anthem Texts and Word Setting of Sebastian Wesley 200Peter Horton 16. The Legacy of Sebastian Wesley 216Stephen Banfield and Nicholas Temperley Appendix 1: Catalogue of Compositions by Charles Wesley the Younger 231 Methodist Hymnals Cited 242 Bibliography 245 Contributors 263 Index 267
£19.94
Indiana University Press Rally the Scattered Believers
Book SynopsisNorthern New England, a rugged landscape dotted with transient settlements, posed challenges to the traditional town church in the wake of the American Revolution. This book examines how migrants adapted their understanding of religious community and spiritual space to survive in the harsh physical surroundings of the region.Trade Review[A]n ambitious and engaging piece of scholarship. . . Rally the Scattered Believers promises to complement classic and much-respected works on Vermont's religious communities during this period. . . More significant than the book's engagement with that earlier scholarship is its contribution to recent and ongoing scholarly discussion about the place of religion in early American life. Balik's New England is a religious place. . . [H]er interesting new book provides an alternative to other recent books that see more of the secular than the sacred in America's past.83.1 Winter/Spring 2015 * Vermont History *I strongly recommend Balik's book for those studying colonial religious landscapes and heritages not only in New England, but in the nineteenth-century religious diasporas that swept the continent with varying mixes of European colonials and also African and Asian heritages. -- Stanley D. Brunn * University of Kentucky *Rally the Scattered Believers is an important new interpretation of how religious change shaped American cultural identity in the early republic. * Journal of American History *[A] deeply researched and meticulously sourced book. . . [R]eading Rally the Scattered Believers helped me to consider anew the centrality of place—and the differing ways that religious organizations organize space—in understanding religious history.9/22/14 * Religion in American History *The book's meticulous coverage of the spread of these faiths and its interpretation through the lens of geography is a strength. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Using church and town records, the personal writings and correspondence of laity and clergy, books, pamphlets, and religious periodicals, Balik has written an engaging, ground-level religious history with larger implications. * Journal of the Early Republic *Shelby Balik's deeply researched 'Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England's Religious Geography' offers a finely grained picture of that era of burgeoning development. . . . Balik's book delivers one of the best histories of precisely what the 'Second Great Awakening' amounted to in northern New England. Dec 2015 * American Historical Review *Balik's exhaustively researched book represents the most comprehensive and important study of northern New England's religious history published to date. It is also a significant contribution to a small body of scholarship on the spatial study of religion. . . . In sum, this is a major work of extraordinary scholarship. * Church History *Table of ContentsForeword by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. SteinAcknowledgmentsA Note on Places Introduction: Churching the Northern Wilds1. No Schism in the Body: The Town Church in Crisis2. Zion Travels: The Itinerant Enterprise3. Scrambling for the Right: Disestablishment and the Town Church4. 'Tis All on Fire: Landscapes of Religious Community5. Fairly Missionary Ground: The Congregationalist Turn to Itinerancy6. A City Set on a Hill: Northern New England's New Religious GeographyConclusion: A Place of ParadoxesNotesBibliographyIndex
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London Record Society Two Calvinistic Methodist Chapels 17481811
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Baylor University Press Holy Ground
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Baylor University Press William J. Abraham
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University of Nebraska Press A Country Strange and Far
Book SynopsisA Country Strange and Far considers how and why the Methodist Church failed in the Pacific Northwest and how place can affect religious transplantation and growth.Trade Review"This bioregional treatment is a significant addition to the literature on Methodism in the Northwest."—W. L. Pitts Jr., Choice"McKenzie's study makes a valuable contribution because it reminds readers of the important role of religion in America, and it illuminates another of the many dimensions of Pacific Northwest history."—Melinda Marie Jetté, Oregon Historical Quarterly"Regional histories like this one add nuance to the varied ways the Christian movement adapts or fails to adapt with changing cultural realities."—Benjamin L. Hartley, Methodist History“In this artfully crafted book, McKenzie uses architecture as one indicator of the movement of the Methodist church from being a sect focused on discipline and saving souls to accommodating itself to the upwardly mobile status of its congregants, thus losing resonance with the common person. The focus on the Pacific Northwest makes this book an original contribution to our understanding of the importance of geography in understanding religious demographics.”—Donald E. Miller, author of Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium“Employing a bioregional lens to do a close reading of Methodist history in the Pacific Northwest, McKenzie gives sinew and flesh to the claim that the region’s character has always been and remains an actor in the fates and fortunes of religion in this place. A Country Strange and Far is an insightful contribution to understanding the dynamics of regional religion and a refreshing approach to denominational history.”—Patricia O’Connell Killen, coeditor of Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone “Michael McKenzie’s lively narrative of the Methodist efforts to establish a foothold in the Pacific Northwest brings fresh insight into the early religious landscape of the region. McKenzie’s story not only brings to life traditional Methodist figures but details the challenges presented by indifferent immigrants, Indigenous peoples, natural geography, and urbanity. This is a very welcome addition to the study of religion in the Pacific Northwest.”—Dale Soden, author of Outsiders in a Promised Land: Religious Activists in Pacific Northwest History“McKenzie draws on a variety of sources to analyze the mindsets of evangelists, Native peoples, public officials, and settler families as they faced shattering hardships and disillusionments. Carefully researched and smoothly written, his study outlines a classic American drama: idealists struggling in vain to claim and subdue a new region.”—Albert Furtwangler, author of Bringing Indians to the Book“A compelling, original new history, A Country Strange and Far reveals that efforts to establish the Methodist Church in the Pacific Northwest were confounded by the region itself. Through rich storytelling and nuanced analysis, Michael McKenzie sheds new light on the relationship between place and religion and significantly deepens our understanding of the roots of the Pacific Northwest’s distinct secularity.”—Tina Block, author of The Secular Northwest: Religion and Irreligion in Everyday Postwar LifeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Prologue: Listening to Janus Acknowledgments Introduction: Death of the Old Gods 1. A Man Overwhelmed 2. Broken Is the Tie That Binds 3. Miracle in the Valley? 4. A Damned Hilly Place 5. The Peopled Cities 6. Dry and Scattered 7. As the Lion Lay Dying Epilogue: Just a Few Bones Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Tennessee Press St. Mark's and the Social Gospel: Methodist Women
Book SynopsisThe impact of St. Mark’s Community Center and United Methodist Church on the city of New Orleans is immense. Their stories are dramatic reflections of the times. But these stories are more than mere reflections because St. Mark’s changed the picture, leading the way into different understandings of what urban diversity could and should mean. This book looks at the contributions of St. Mark’s, in particular the important role played by women (especially deaconesses) as the church confronted social issues through the rise of the social gospel movement and into the modern civil rights era.Ellen Blue uses St. Mark’s as a microcosm to tell a larger, overlooked story about women in the Methodist Church and the sources of reform. One of the few volumes on women’s history within the church, this book challenges the dominant narrative of the social gospel movement and its past.St. Mark’s and the Social Gospel begins by examining the period between 1895 and World War I, chronicling the center’s development from its early beginnings as a settlement house that served immigrants and documenting the early social gospel activities of Methodist women in New Orleans. Part II explores the efforts of subsequent generations of women to further gender and racial equality between the 1920s and 1960. Major topics addressed in this section include an examination of the deaconesses’ training in Christian Socialist economic theory and the church’s response to the Brown decision. The third part focuses on the church’s direct involvement in the school desegregation crisis of 1960 , including an account of the pastor who broke the white boycott of a desegregated elementary school by taking his daughter back to class there. Part IV offers a brief look at the history of St. Mark’s since 1965.Shedding new light on an often neglected subject, St. Mark’s and the Social Gospel will be welcomed by scholars of religious history, local history, social history, and women’s studies.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Origins of Primitive Methodism
Book SynopsisThe Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character may have been working-class, but this did not reflect its social origins. This book shows that while the Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character was working-class, this did not reflect its social origins. It was never the church of the working class, the great majority of whose churchgoers went elsewhere: rather it was the church whose commitment to its emotional witness was increasingly incompatible with middle-class pretensions. Sandy Calder shows that the Primitive Methodist Connexion was a religious movementled by a fairly prosperous elite of middle-class preachers and lay officials appealing to a respectable working-class constituency. This reality has been obscured by the movement's self-image as a persecuted community of humble Christians, an image crafted by Hugh Bourne, and accepted by later historians, whether Methodists with a denominational agenda to promote or scholars in search of working-class radicals. Primitive Methodists exaggerated their hardships and deliberately under-played their social status and financial success. Primitive Methodism in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became the victim of its own founding mythology, because the legend of a community of persecuted outcasts, concealing its actual respectability, deterred potential recruits. SANDY CALDER graduated with a PhD in Religious Studies from the Open University and has previously worked in the private sector.Trade ReviewA signal scholarly achievement which will be the indispensable starting-point for future studies. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *This book throws down an important challenge to some of the uncritically accepted assumptions which have smothered the study of Methodism for too long. * HISTORY *An important contribution to the history of British Methodism. * REVUE D'HISTOIRE ECCLESIASTIQUE *A significant and challenging contribution. * BULLETIN OF THE METHODIST HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND *A welcome and stimulating addition to the current discussion about Primitive Methodism. Here is an immensely detailed examination of the Bourne manuscript material in particular and Calder's analysis must be taken seriously. * METHODIST RECORDER *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Historiography Problem The Sources Problem The Bourne Problem A Third-Party View of Early Primitive Methodism The Baptismal Registers The 1851 Religious Census The PM Chapel The Character of the Leadership Conclusions and a Reinterpretation Appendix A Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Image Identity and John Wesley A Study in Portraiture Routledge Methodist Studies
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Cambridge University Press Wesley and the Wesleyans Religion in EighteenthCentury Britain British Lives
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Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City A Charitable Discourse Talking about the Things
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Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City What Is a Nazarene Understanding Our Place in the
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Arcadia Publishing St Mark United Methodist Church Images of America
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University of Tennessee Press Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the
Book SynopsisRace Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the A.M.E. Church examines important nineteenth-century social issues through the lens of the AME Church and its publications. This book explores the ways in which leaders and laity constructed historical narratives around varied locations to sway public opinion of the day. Drawing on the official church newspaper, the Christian Recorder, and other denominational and rare major primary sources, Bailey goes beyond previously published works that focus solely on the founding era of the tradition or the eastern seaboard or post-bellum South to produce a work than breaks new historiographical ground by spanning the entirety of the nineteenth century and exploring new geographical terrain such as the American West. Through careful analysis of AME print culture, Bailey demonstrates that far from focusing solely on the 'politics of uplift' and seeking to instill bourgeois social values in black society as other studies have suggested, black authors, intellectuals, and editors used institutional histories and other writings for activist purposes and reframed protest in new ways in the postbellum period. Adding significantly to the literature on the history of the book and reading in the nineteenth century, Bailey examines AME print culture as a key to understanding African American social reform recovering the voices of black religious leaders and writers to provide a more comprehensive and nuanced portrayal of the central debates and issues facing African Americans in the nineteenth century such as migration westward, selecting the appropriate referent for the race, Social Darwinism, and the viability of emigration to Africa. Scholars and students of religious studies, African American studies, American studies, history, and journalism will welcome this pioneering new study. Julius H. Bailey is the author of Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. He is an associate professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California. Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the A.M.E. Church examines important nineteenth-century social issues through the lens of the AME Church and its publications. This book explores the ways in which leaders and laity constructed historical narratives around varied locations to sway public opinion of the day. Drawing on the official church newspaper, the Christian Recorder, and other denominational and rare major primary sources, Bailey goes beyond previously published works that focus solely on the founding era of the tradition or the eastern seaboard or post-bellum South to produce a work than breaks new historiographical ground by spanning the entirety of the nineteenth century and exploring new geographical terrain such as the American West. Through careful analysis of AME print culture, Bailey demonstrates that far from focusing solely on the 'politics of uplift' and seeking to instill bourgeois social values in black society as other studies have suggested, black authors, intellectuals, and editors used institutional histories and other writings for activist purposes and reframed protest in new ways in the postbellum period. Adding significantly to the literature on the history of the book and reading in the nineteenth century, Bailey examines AME print culture as a key to understanding African American social reform recovering the voices of black religious leaders and writers to provide a more comprehensive and nuanced portrayal of the central debates and issues facing African Americans in the nineteenth century such as migration westward, selecting the appropriate referent for the race, Social Darwinism, and the viability of emigration to Africa. Scholars and students of religious studies, African American studies, American studies, history, and journalism will welcome this pioneering new study. Julius H. Bailey is the author of Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. He is an associate professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California.
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