Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : Christian sects
Languages : en
Pages : 960

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Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
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Category : Church statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Includes statistics for memberships, Sunday schools, ministers, languages used in the conduct of services, and a sketch of the missionary, educational, and philanthropic work of the various denominations at home and abroad. Includes national, state & territory, and county data.

Author: United States. Census Office
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Category : Church statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 716

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Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : Church statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : Church statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: Milton C. Sernett
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822382458
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration—the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing on this phenomenon’s religious and cultural implications, Milton C. Sernett breaks with traditional patterns of historiography that analyze the migration in terms of socioeconomic considerations. Drawing on a range of sources—interviews, government documents, church periodicals, books, pamphlets, and articles—Sernett shows how the mass migration created an institutional crisis for black religious leaders. He describes the creative tensions that resulted when the southern migrants who saw their exodus as the Second Emancipation brought their religious beliefs and practices into northern cities such as Chicago, and traces the resulting emergence of the belief that black churches ought to be more than places for "praying and preaching." Explaining how this social gospel perspective came to dominate many of the classic studies of African American religion, Bound for the Promised Land sheds new light on various components of the development of black religion, including philanthropic endeavors to "modernize" the southern black rural church. In providing a balanced and holistic understanding of black religion in post–World War I America, Bound for the Promised Land serves to reveal the challenges presently confronting this vital component of America’s religious mosaic.

Author: W. David Baird
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806166371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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In the 1950s and 1960s, Churches of Christ were the fastest growing religious organization in the United States. The churches flourished especially in southern and western states, including Oklahoma. In this compelling history, historian W. David Baird examines the key characteristics, individuals, and debates that have shaped the Churches of Christ in Oklahoma from the early nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Baird’s narrative begins with an account of the Stone-Campbell movement, which emerged along the American frontier in the early 1800s. Representatives of this movement in Oklahoma first came as missionaries to American Indians, mainly to the Cherokees, Chickasaws, and Choctaws. Baird highlights the role of two prominent missionaries during this period, and he next describes a second generation of missionaries who came along during the era of the Twin Territories, prior to statehood. In 1906, as a result of disagreements regarding faith and practice, followers of the Stone-Campbell Movement divided into two organizations: Churches of Christ and Disciples of Christ. Baird then focuses solely on Churches of Christ in Oklahoma, all the while keeping a broader national context in view. Drawing on extensive research, Baird delves into theological and political debates and explores the role of the Churches of Christ during the two world wars. As Churches of Christ grew in number and size throughout the country during the mid-twentieth century, controversy loomed. Oklahoma’s Churches of Christ argued over everything from Sunday schools and the support of orphan’s homes to worship elements, gender roles in the church, and biblical interpretation. And nobody could agree on why church membership began to decline in the 1970s, despite exciting new community outreach efforts. This history by an accomplished scholar provides solid background and new insight into the question of whether Churches of Christ locally and nationally will be able to reverse course and rebuild their membership in the twenty-first century.

Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1048

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Author: Library of Congress. Census Library Project
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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