Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama

by Wilson Fallin Jr.

Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention--its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders. Fallin demonstrates that a distinctive Afro-Baptist faith emerged as slaves in Alabama combined the African religious emphasis on spirit possession, soul-travel, and rebirth with the evangelical faith of Baptists. The denomination emphasizes a conversion experience that brings salvation, spiritual freedom,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817315691
• ISBN13: 9780817315696
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"