Author: Pitts, Walter F., Jr.
Title: Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xvi,199 pp. Minor rubbing, slight page-edge soil, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction; "Magnificence, Beauty, Poetry, & Color": The Afro- Baptist Church, Its Ritual and Frames; "We Free!": History of the Afro- Baptist Church; "I Want To Be At the Meeting": A History of Afro-Baptist Speech & Hymnody; "Kabiesile Shango!": A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Ritual Frames; "Nothing New Under the Sun": The Variation of Speech & Song in the Afro-Baptist Ritual; "Like a Ship": Afro-Baptist Ritual Process.

Keywords: History of Religion, Afro-Baptist Church, African Americans, Afro-American Black, Minority Minorities, Churches Diaspora, Baptist Comparative, Denominational, Sociology Baptists