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Article: Show Us How You Do It: Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968.(Book review)
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- September 1, 2009
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Show Us How You Do It: Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968. By Edward ,J. Robinson. Religion and American Culture. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008. xii + 243 pp. $39.95 cloth.
Two salient characteristics have shaped scholarship about the institutional infrastructure of African American Christianity. Emphasis has been placed on the seven large historically black religious bodies of Baptists, Methodists, and pentecostals, and the smaller but influential enclaves of African Americans in largely white Presbyterian, Congregational, Episcopal, and Methodist Episcopal denominations. Blacks in these ...