James Melvin Washington

Biographic Data

ID362895
NAMEJames Melvin Washington
GIVEN NAMESJames Melvin
FAMILY NAMEWashington
SIGNATUREWASHINGTON J M
AFFILIATIONSUnion Theological Seminary
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
H-INDEX2

  • Retelling Carter Woodson's Story: Archival Sources for Afro-American Church History

    Albert Jordy Raboteau, David W Wills et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1990Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Retelling Carter Woodson's Story: Archival Sources for Afro-American Church History Get access Albert J. Raboteau, Albert J. Raboteau Professor of Religion Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David W. Wills, David W. Wills professor of religion Amherst College are coeditors of Afro-American Religion: A Documentary History Project, an undertaking funded by the Lilly Endowmen…

  • Uplifting the Race: The Black Minister in the New South, 1865-1902

    James Melvin Washington, Edward L WheelerARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1988

  • Frustrated Fellowship: The Black Baptist Quest for Social Power

    H A Baer, James Melvin WashingtonARTICLEReview of Religious Research1988

  • Frustrated Fellowship: The Black Baptist Quest for Social Power

    David M Tucker, James Melvin WashingtonARTICLEThe American Historical Review1987

  • Frustrated Fellowship: The Black Baptist Quest for Social Power

    Robert L Hall, James Melvin WashingtonARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1987

    Between 1788 and 1834 black Baptists formed their first distinctively black congregations and organized regional associations. By 1831, when an enslaved Baptist preacher named Nat Turner inspired an insurrection against slave-holders in Virginia, black Baptists had acquired peculiar and precarious religious freedom. Turner's rebellion and black Baptist role in ending slavery in Jamaica brought restrictions on movements of black preachers, but bla…

  • Frustrated Fellowship: The Black Baptist Quest for Social Power

    David E Swift, James Melvin WashingtonARTICLEJournal of American History1987

    Journal Article Frustrated Fellowship: The Black Baptist Quest for Social Power. By James Melvin Washington. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1986. xvii + 226 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $12.95.) Get access David E. Swift David E. Swift Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, March 1987, Pages 1027–1028, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904092 Published: 0…

  • A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr

    Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, James Melvin WashingtonARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1987

  • A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr

    Mike Tierce, Martin Luther King et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1986

  • Jesse Jackson and the Symbolic Politics of Black Christendom

    Open AccessJames Melvin WashingtonARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1985Cited by: 7References: 2

    This article examines the significance of the Reverend Jesse Jackson's bid for the Democratic party's presidential nomination. Jackson's candidacy represents a new use of political revivalism, an old evangelical political praxis recast in the modalities of African American Christian culture. This praxis is an aspect of American political culture that has often been overlooked because of past misunderstandings of American folk religion in general,…