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050 00 $aBR563.N4$bO48 2008
082 00 $a277.58/08208996073$222
100 1 $aOltman, Adele,$d1957-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007045777
245 10 $aSacred mission, worldly ambition :$bBlack Christian nationalism in the age of Jim Crow /$cAdele Oltman.
260 $aAthens, Ga. :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axi, 248 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tMapping Black Savannah: Nation and Religion -- $gCh. 2.$tHolding the Line for the Word: Black Evangelicals below the Mason-Dixon -- $gCh. 3.$t"Even If He Is a Woman": Savannah's Talented Tenth and Black Suffrage -- $gCh. 4.$t"Have Hardly Had Straw": Black Christian Nation Building and White Christian Philanthropy -- $gCh. 5.$t"Peace and Harmony of the Church": The Secularization of Black Savannah -- $tEpilogue: From Black Christian Nationalism to Civil Rights.
500 $a"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-240) and index.
520 1 $a"Using Savannah, Georgia, as a case study, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition tells the story of the rise and decline of Black Christian Nationalism. This nationalism emerged, from the experiences of segregation, as an intersection between the sacred world of religion and church and the secular world of business. The premise of Black Christian Nationalism was a belief in a dual understanding of redemption, at the same time earthly and otherworldly, and the conviction that black Christians, once delivered from psychic, spiritual, and material want, would release all of America from the suffering that prevented it from achieving its noble ideals." "The study's use of local sources in Savannah, especially behind-the-scenes church records, provides a rare glimpse into church life and ritual, depicting scenes never before described. Blending history, ethnography, and Geertzian dramaturgy, it traces the evolution of black southern society from a communitarian, nationalist system of hierarchy, patriarchy, and inter-class fellowship to an individualistic one that accompanied the appearance of a new black civil society." "Although not a study of the civil rights movement, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition advances a bold, revisionist interpretation of black religion at the eve of the movement. It shows that the institutional primacy of the churches had to give way to a more diversified secular sphere before an overtly politicized struggle for freedom could take place. The unambiguously political movement of the 1950s and 1960s that drew on black Christianity and radiated from many black churches was possible only when the churches came to exert less control over members' quotidian lives."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xReligion.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001980
650 0 $aBlack nationalism$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014593
650 0 $aBlack power$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014603
651 0 $aSavannah (Ga.)$xChurch history.
852 00 $bglx$hBR563.N4$iO48 2008