Download or read book Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century written by A. Owens and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children of Ham, and how the denomination relied on both the rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism.