Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa

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University of North Carolina Press, 1998 - Religion - 418 pages
Songs of Zion focuses on the African Methodist Episcopal Church, black America's oldest and largest independent church. Campbell charts the origins and evolution of African American independent churches, arguing that the very act of becoming Christian for

About the author (1998)

JAMES T. CAMPBELL is associate professor of American civilization, Africana studies, and history at Brown University. MATTHEW PRATT GUTERL is director of the American studies program and associate professor of African American and African diaspora studies at Indiana University. ROBERT G. LEE is associate professor of American civilization at Brown University.

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