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Book SynopsisA major figure in southern black restorationist church history
Trade Review""Robinson's findings challenge two long-established wisdoms: that there was (or is) such a thing as
the black church, an intangible entity encompassing the unique religious experience of African Americans; and that Jim Crow was
the cultural message pervading life in the New South.""
Journal of Southern History|Historians of African American and Anglo American Christianity will learn tremendously from Robinson’s research on the ambivalent strategies of whites who desired to convert blacks to their denomination as a means of maintaining white supremacism. Those seeking to understand southern culture and history more acutely will seize upon the nuance that springs from the volume’s discussion of race and religion, with great reward. Perhaps most importantly, those who have been overzealous in reducing African American Christianity to the caricature of the prophetic vanguard will find here a disciplined, sobering study of socially conservative African American Christianity that adds considerably to our knowledge of the nation’s racial and religious past.”
Journal of American Ethnic History|
Show Us How You Do It offers an important contribution to southern religious and race relations in Churches of Christ.” Hans Rollmann, Professor, Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland
This book provides an account of a distinctive black tradition and its relation to white churches that is not represented in the current history of the black church in America. The book is based on sound research. It is well-written.” D. Newell Williams, President and Professor of Modern and American Church History, Brite Divinity School at Forth Worth, Texas
