Black Zion (eBook, PDF)

African American Religious Encounters with Judaism
Redaktion: Chireau, Yvonne; Deutsch, Nathaniel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. In contrast to previous works, which have typically focused on the social and political relationship between blacks and Jews, Black Zion places religion at the center of its discussion, thereby illuminating a critically important but little explored aspect of black-Jewish relations in America. The essays gathered here examine groups such as the Nation of Islam and the Hebrew Israelites, individuals such as Martin Luther King, Jr., and Abraham Joshua Heschel, and topics such as the transformation of synagogue space into African American churches and the symbolic role of the Jew in the Haitian religious imagination. This collection draws on sacred texts, interviews, and ethnographic and archival research to discuss the shared elements in black and Jewish sacred life, as well as the development and elaboration of new religious identities by African Americans. Featuring contributions from a group of renowned scholars and writers, this groundbreaking volume reveals a great deal about both African American religions and the meaning of Judaism in the contemporary world. It is essential reading for students of religion, history, cultural studies, black studies, and American studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780195354621
• Artikelnr.: 38140643

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part One: African American Jews and Israelites
* Black Culture and Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters
with Judaism, 1790-1930: An Overview
* African American Jews: Dispelling Myths, Bridging the Divide
* Symbolic Identity Formation in an African American Religious Sect:
The Black Hebrew Israelites
* Another Exodus: The Hebrew Israelites from Chicago to Dimona
* Part Two: African American Muslims and Judaism
* The Proximate Other: The Nation of Islam and Judaism
* The Nubian Islamic Hebrews, Ansaaru Allah Community
* Part Three: African American Christianity and Judaism
* Remembering Nehemiah, A Note on Biblical Theology
* Theological Affinities in the Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel and
Martin Luther King, Jr.
* This is the Gateway to the Lord: The Legacy of Synagogue Buildings
for African-American Churches on Cincinnati's Reading Road
* The Jew in the Haitian Imagination
* Selected Bibliography
* Notes on Contributors