Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South

by Stephen W. Angell

Book Overview

Henry McNeal Turner was an "epoch-making man, " as his colleague Reverdy Ransom called him. A bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1880 to 1915, Turner was also a politician and Georgia legislator during Reconstruction, U.S. Army chaplain, newspaper editor, prohibition advocate, civil rights and back-to-Africa activist, African missionary, and early proponent of black theology. This richly detailed book, the first full-length critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572331569
• ISBN13: 9781572331563
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"