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A Will to Choose traces the history of African-American Methodism
beginning with their emergence in the fledgling American Methodist
movement in the 1760s. Responding to Methodism's anti-slavery
stance, African-Americans joined the new movement in large numbers
and by the end of the eighteenth century, had made up the largest
minority in the Methodist church, filling positions of authority as
class leaders, exhorters, and preachers. Through the first half of
the nineteenth century, African Americans used the resources of the
church in their struggle for liberation from slavery and racism in
the secular culture.
A Will to Choose traces the history of African-American Methodism
beginning with their emergence in the fledgling American Methodist
movement in the 1760s. Responding to Methodism's anti-slavery
stance, African-Americans joined the new movement in large numbers
and by the end of the eighteenth century, had made up the largest
minority in the Methodist church, filling positions of authority as
class leaders, exhorters, and preachers. Through the first half of
the nineteenth century, African Americans used the resources of the
church in their struggle for liberation from slavery and racism in
the secular culture.
Discussions of any religion can easily raise passions. But
arguments tend to become even more heated when the religion under
discussion is characterized as new. Divisions around the study of
new religious movements (NRMs), or cults, or nontraditional or
alternative or emergent religions are so acute that there is even
controversy over what to call them. John Saliba strives to bring
balance to these discussions by offering perspectives on new
religions from different academic perspectives: history,
psychology, sociology, law, theology, and counseling. This approach
provides rich descriptions of a broad range of movements while
demonstrating how the differing aims of the disciplines can create
much of the controversy around NRMs. The new second edition has
been updated and revised throughout and includes a new foreword by
noted historian of religion, J. Gordon Melton. For classes in
religion or the social sciences, or for interested individuals,
Understanding New Religious Movements offers the most objective
introduction possible.
Discussions of any religion can easily raise passions. But
arguments tend to become even more heated when the religion under
discussion is characterized as new. Divisions around the study of
new religious movements (NRMs), or cults, or nontraditional or
alternative or emergent religions are so acute that there is even
controversy over what to call them. John Saliba strives to bring
balance to these discussions by offering perspectives on new
religions from different academic perspectives: history,
psychology, sociology, law, theology, and counseling. This approach
provides rich descriptions of a broad range of movements while
demonstrating how the differing aims of the disciplines can create
much of the controversy around NRMs. The new second edition has
been updated and revised throughout and includes a new foreword by
noted historian of religion, J. Gordon Melton. For classes in
religion or the social sciences, or for interested individuals,
Understanding New Religious Movements offers the most objective
introduction possible.
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