Hell Without Fire
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780687052837
Subjects: History of religion; Methodist Churches; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Colored Methodist Episcopal Church; Religion - Church History; Religion; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Christianity - History - General; Religion / Church History; Social Science-Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Social Science-Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Ethnic & Tribal; African Americans; Christianity; Conversion; History
Description: "Using the motif of Christian conversion as a unifying theme, Whelchel provides a basic introduction to the history and diversity of Christian religion among enslaved Africans and black Americans. Conversion serves to illuminate the complex relationships that developed between black and white religion in America from its founding until the period of Reconstruction. Whelchel concludes with the story of the founding of the C. M.

E., illustrating the emergence of black Methodism from white control in the South following the Civil War."--BOOK JACKET.