Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa black-history month Their affinity was not predestined

Their affinity was not predestined

In Black Bodies and the Black Church

Set in Iran at the end of the 19th Century ―in the Persian royal court of the Qajars―

recording the names of blacks who have served the King and earned their freedom in Nova Scotia

Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa black-history month Their affinity was not predestinedThis is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans the African Methodist Episcopal Church that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the book studies the complex human and intellectual traffic that has bound African American and South African experience. It explores the development and growth of