Elevating the race
Subtitle: Theophilus G. Steward, Black theology, and the making of an African American civil society, 1865-1924
By: Albert G. Miller.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Steward, T. G. 1843-1924.; African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Clergy -- Biography.; Wilberforce University -- Presidents -- Biography.; African Americans -- Biography.; African American political activists -- Biography.; African American theologians -- Biography.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.; African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.; Black theology -- History.; Civil society -- United States -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Albert Miller examines Theophilus Gould Steward's accomplishments and writings - including his unpublished manuscripts and his overlooked Victorian novel - to assess the ideas that he left to posterity and to consider how they shaped his times. The book devotes individual chapters to the key themes that dominated Steward's life: African American education, reconciling theology with modern science, the intersection of rational theology and moral virtues, the contradictions of race, the role of women in African American civil society, and Steward's views on the military and imperialism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-206) and index.