The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era

by Morris Davis

In the early part of the twentieth century, Methodists were seen by many Americans as the most powerful Christian group in the country. Ulysses S. Grant is rumored to have said that during his presidency there were three major political parties in the U.S., if you counted the Methodists.
The Methodist Unification focuses on the efforts among the Southern and Northern Methodist churches to create a unified national Methodist church, and how their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814719902
• ISBN13: 9780814719909
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"