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The Methodist unification : Christianity and the politics of the Jim Crow era

Focuses on the efforts among the Southern and Northern Methodist churches to create a unified national Methodist church, and how their plan for unification came to institutionalize racism and segregation in unprecedented ways.
Print Book, English, ©2007
New York University Press, New York, ©2007
History
pages cm.
9780814719909, 0814719902
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Birth of a nation, birth of a church
The Baltimore meeting : saints, cemeteries, and savages
Race consciousness
The Savannah meeting : the bogey of social equality?
The final three meetings : the problem of missions and the urgency of patriots