James T. Campbell: Songs of Zion

Cover: 9780807847114 | Songs of Zion | James T. Campbell | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 1998

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Founded by free people of color in Philadelphia in the aftermath of the American Revolution, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church emerged in the nineteenth century as the preeminent black institution in the United States. In 1896, the church opened mission work in South Africa, absorbing an independent "Ethiopian" church founded by dissident African Christians a few years earlier. In the process, the church helped ignite one of the most influential popular movements in South African history.
Songs of Zion examines this remarkable historical convergence from both sides of the Atlantic. James Campbell charts the origins and evolution of black American independent churches, arguing that the very act of becoming Christian forced African Americans to reflect on their relationship to their ancestral continent. He then turns to South Africa, exploring the AME Church's entrance and evolution in a series of specific South African contexts. Throughout the book, Campbell focuses on the comparisons that Africans and African Americans themselves drew between their situations. Their transatlantic encounter, he argues, enabled both groups to understand and act upon their worlds in new ways.

Über den Autor

JAMES T. CAMPBELL is associate professor of American civilization, Africana studies, and history at Brown University. MATTHEW PRATT GUTERL is director of the American studies program and associate professor of African American and African diaspora studies at Indiana University. ROBERT G. LEE is associate professor of American civilization at Brown University.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1998
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780807847114
ISBN-10:	0807847119
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Campbell, James T.
Hersteller:	The University of North Carolina Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	James T. Campbell
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.03.1998
Gewicht:	0,754 kg