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After Redemption - Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915 (Paperback)
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After Redemption - Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915 (Paperback)
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Challenging the traditional interpretation that the years between
Reconstruction and World War I were a period when blacks made only
marginal advances in religion, politics, and social life, John
Giggie contends that these years marked a critical turning point in
the religious history of southern blacks. In this ground-breaking
first book, Giggie connects these changes in religious life in the
Delta region - whose popularity was predominantly black but
increasingly ruled by white supremacists - to the Great Migration
and looks at how they impacted the new urban lives of those who
made the exodus to the north. Rather than a straight narrative, the
chapters present a range of ways blacks in the Delta experimented
with new forms of cultural expression and how they looked for
spiritual meaning in the face of racial violence. Giggie traces how
experiences with the railroad became a part of spiritual life, how
consumer marketing built religious identities, ways that fraternal
societies became tied in with churches, the role of material
culture in unifying religious identity across the Delta, and the
backlash against the worldliness of black churches and the growth
of alternate practices. The study take into account folk religion
as well as a panopoly of institutions - black Baptist churches,
African Methodist Episcopal church, Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church, black conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
churches that formed the African-American Holiness movement - and
looks at how they vigorously quarreled over the proper definition
of religious organization, worship, and consumption. Vivid evidence
comes from black denominational newspapers, published and
unpublished ex-slave interviews conducted by the Works Progress
Administration, legal transcripts, autobiographies, and recordings
of black music and oral expression. This work is an excellent fit
with the strengths of the OUP lists in African American, Southern,
and religious history.
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