Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the SouthHenry McNeal Turner was an "epoch-making man, " as his colleague Reverdy Ransom called him. A bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1880 to 1915, Turner was also a politician and Georgia legislator during Reconstruction, U.S. Army chaplain, newspaper editor, prohibition advocate, civil rights and back-to-Africa activist, African missionary, and early proponent of black theology. This richly detailed book, the first full-length critical biography of Turner, firmly places him alongside DuBois and Washington as a preeminent visionary of the postbellum African-American experience. The strength and vitality of today's black church tradition owes much to the herculean labors of pioneers such as Turner, one of the most skillful denominational builders in American history. When emancipation created the prerequisites for a strong national religious organization, Turner, with his boldness, charisma, political wisdom, eloquence, and energy, took full advantage of the opportunity. Combining evangelicalism with forthright agitation for racial freedom, he instigated the most momentous transformation in A.M.E. Church history--the mission to the South. Stephen Angell views Turner's advocacy of ordination for women and his missionary work in Africa as a further outgrowth of the bishop's deep evangelical commitment. The book's epilogue offers the first serious analysis of Turner's theology and his replies to racist distortions of the Christian message. |
Contents
Youthful Evangelist | 7 |
A M E Pastor and Army Chaplain | 33 |
Organizing a Freed People | 60 |
Black Minister in Politics | 81 |
Turner at Savannah | 108 |
Politics Economics and Exodus | 123 |
Turner Becomes a Bishop | 142 |
Healing Sectional Wounds in the A M | 157 |
Strains within the Southern A M E Church | 177 |
ΙΟ Turners Church Management in the 1890s | 198 |
A Field Fully Ripe for the Harvest | 215 |
Turners Final Years | 238 |
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Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South Stephen Ward Angell No preview available - 1992 |
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Page 315 - M. Turner, The Barbarous Decision of the United States Supreme Court Declaring the Civil Rights Act Unconstitutional and Disrobing the Colored Race of Civil Protection. The most Cruel and Inhumane Verdict against a Loyal People in the History of the World (Atlanta, 1893) 3Atlanta Constitution, July 14 (5, 1), 1890.