Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow

Author/Contributor(s):	Oltman, Adele
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	01/15/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.