Author: Stephen Mason Merrill
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Languages : en
Pages : 120
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The Organic Union of American Methodism
Author: Stephen Mason Merrill
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Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Pages : 120
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The Methodist Unification
Author: Morris L Davis
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814720315
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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“A ground-breaking analysis of the intertwined political, racial, and religious dynamics” in the early twentieth century Methodist Church (Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards, United Theological Seminary, Dayton Ohio). In 1939, America’s three major Methodist Churches sent delegates to Kansas City, Missouri, for what they called the Uniting Conference. They formed the largest, and arguably the most powerful, Protestant church in the country. Yet this newly “unified” denomination was segregated to its core. In The Methodist Unification, Morris L. Davis examines this unification process, and how it came to institutionalize racism and segregation in unprecedented ways. Davis shows that Methodists in the early twentieth century—including high-profile African American clergy—were very much against integration. Many feared that mixing the races would lead to interracial marriages and threaten the social order of American society. The Methodist Unification illuminates the religious culture of Methodism, Methodists' self-identification as the primary carriers of “American Christian Civilization,” and their influence on the crystallization of whiteness during the Jim Crow Era as a legal category and cultural symbol.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814720315
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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“A ground-breaking analysis of the intertwined political, racial, and religious dynamics” in the early twentieth century Methodist Church (Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards, United Theological Seminary, Dayton Ohio). In 1939, America’s three major Methodist Churches sent delegates to Kansas City, Missouri, for what they called the Uniting Conference. They formed the largest, and arguably the most powerful, Protestant church in the country. Yet this newly “unified” denomination was segregated to its core. In The Methodist Unification, Morris L. Davis examines this unification process, and how it came to institutionalize racism and segregation in unprecedented ways. Davis shows that Methodists in the early twentieth century—including high-profile African American clergy—were very much against integration. Many feared that mixing the races would lead to interracial marriages and threaten the social order of American society. The Methodist Unification illuminates the religious culture of Methodism, Methodists' self-identification as the primary carriers of “American Christian Civilization,” and their influence on the crystallization of whiteness during the Jim Crow Era as a legal category and cultural symbol.
The History of Methodism: American Methodism
Author: John Fletcher Hurst
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Category : Methodism
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Category : Methodism
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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A Long Reconstruction
Author: Paul William Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197571840
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions? Conventional historical timelines mark the end of Reconstruction in the year 1877, but the Methodist Episcopal Church continued to wrestle with issues of racial inclusion for decades after political support for racial reform had receded. An 1844 schism over slavery split Methodism into northern and southern branches, but Union victory in the Civil War provided the northern Methodists with the opportunity to send missionaries and teachers into the territory that had been occupied by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. To a remarkable degree, the M.E. Church succeeded in appealing to freed slaves and white Unionists and thereby built up a biracial membership far surpassing that of any other Protestant denomination. A Long Reconstruction details the denomination's journey with unification and justice. African Americans who joined did so in a spirit of hope that through religious fellowship and cooperation they could gain respect and acceptance and ultimately assume a position of equality and brotherhood with whites. However, as segregation gradually took hold in the South, many northern Methodists evinced the same skepticism as white southerners about the fitness of African Americans for positions of authority and responsibility in an interracial setting. The African American membership was never without strong white allies who helped to sustain the Church's official stance against racial caste but, like the nation as a whole, the M.E. Church placed a growing priority on putting their broken union back together.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197571840
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions? Conventional historical timelines mark the end of Reconstruction in the year 1877, but the Methodist Episcopal Church continued to wrestle with issues of racial inclusion for decades after political support for racial reform had receded. An 1844 schism over slavery split Methodism into northern and southern branches, but Union victory in the Civil War provided the northern Methodists with the opportunity to send missionaries and teachers into the territory that had been occupied by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. To a remarkable degree, the M.E. Church succeeded in appealing to freed slaves and white Unionists and thereby built up a biracial membership far surpassing that of any other Protestant denomination. A Long Reconstruction details the denomination's journey with unification and justice. African Americans who joined did so in a spirit of hope that through religious fellowship and cooperation they could gain respect and acceptance and ultimately assume a position of equality and brotherhood with whites. However, as segregation gradually took hold in the South, many northern Methodists evinced the same skepticism as white southerners about the fitness of African Americans for positions of authority and responsibility in an interracial setting. The African American membership was never without strong white allies who helped to sustain the Church's official stance against racial caste but, like the nation as a whole, the M.E. Church placed a growing priority on putting their broken union back together.
The Methodist Review
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America
Author: Charles Henry Phillips
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Category : African American Christians
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Category : African American Christians
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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A Working Conference on the Union of American Methodism
Author: John Richard Lindgren Foundation
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Proceedings of the Second Ecumenical Methodist Conference Held in the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church, October 1891, Washington, D.C.,
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Category : Councils and synods, Ecumenical
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Category : Councils and synods, Ecumenical
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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The American Year Book
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Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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A Constitutional History of American Episcopal Methodism
Author: John James Tigert
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Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Languages : en
Pages : 636
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