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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136839703321

Autore

Weisenfeld Judith

Titolo

New World A-Coming : Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration / / Judith Weisenfeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-4798-5368-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations, tables, photographs

Disciplina

200.89960730000001

Soggetti

Race relations - Religious aspects

Race relations

African Americans - Religion

African Americans - Race identity

African Americans - Race identity - History - 20th century

African Americans - Religion - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

United States

United States Race relations 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Geographies of race and religion -- 2. Sacred time and divine histories -- 3. Religio- racial self- fashioning -- 4. Maintaining the religio- racial body -- 5. Making the religio- racial family -- 6. The religio- racial politics of space and place -- 7. Community, conflict, and the boundaries of black religion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- About the author

Sommario/riassunto

When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute "Ethiopian Hebrew." "God did not make us Negroes," declared religious leaders in black communities of the early twentieth-



century urban North. They insisted that so-called Negroes are, in reality, Ethiopian Hebrews, Asiatic Muslims, or raceless children of God. Rejecting conventional American racial classification, many black southern migrants and immigrants from the Caribbean embraced these alternative visions of black history, racial identity, and collective future, thereby reshaping the black religious and racial landscape. Focusing on the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement, and a number of congregations of Ethiopian Hebrews, Judith Weisenfeld argues that the appeal of these groups lay not only in the new religious opportunities membership provided, but also in the novel ways they formulated a religio-racial identity. Arguing that members of these groups understood their religious and racial identities as divinely-ordained and inseparable, the book examines how this sense of self shaped their conceptions of their bodies, families, religious and social communities, space and place, and political sensibilities. Weisenfeld draws on extensive archival research and incorporates a rich array of sources to highlight the experiences of average members.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785744203321

Autore

Hugman Richard <1954-, >

Titolo

Culture, values and ethics in social work : embracing diversity / / Richard Hugman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

9781136210204

1-136-21019-9

1-283-60537-6

9786613917829

1-136-21020-2

0-203-09490-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Classificazione

MED003000SOC025000

Disciplina

174/.9361

Soggetti

Social service - Moral and ethical aspects

Social workers - Professional ethics

Cultural pluralism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: culture, values and ethics in social work and human services; 2 The implications of culture for social work and human services; 3 Professionalism and ethics in social work and human services; 4 Universal values and ethics; 5 Cultural difference in values and ethics; 6 Pluralism and ethics in social work and human services; 7 Religion, spirituality, values and ethics: implications for social work and human services; 8 Ethical pluralism and the democratic urge; 9 The paradox of value difference and ethical pluralism

10 Embracing diversity: shared humanity and cultural difference?Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"This groundbreaking book examines the ways in which questions of culture and diversity impact on the values and ethics of social work. Using detailed case studies to illustrate key points for practice, Richard Hugman discusses how social workers can develop culturally-competent ethical practice and work creatively with the tensions it sometimes involves. Debates rage over whether there is a core set of unchangeable social work values or whether they might be different at different times and for different people. This textbook proposes a new approach of 'ethical pluralism' for social work practice, in which both shared humanity and the rich variety of cultures contribute to a more dynamic way of understanding social work's underpinning values and ethics. In particular, this book explores the implications of a pluralist approach to ethics for the central questions of: Human rights and social justice Caring relationships Social and personal responsibilities Agency and autonomy Values such as truth, honesty, openness, service and competence. It is vital that social workers understand the values and ethics of their profession as a crucial part of the foundations on which practice is built and this is the only text to explore the connections between culture, values and ethics and fully develop the pluralist approach in social work. Culture, Values and Ethics in Social Work is essential reading for all social work students and academics"--

"This groundbreaking book examines the ways in which questions of culture and diversity impact on the values and ethics of social work. Using detailed case studies to illustrate key points for practice, Richard Hugman discusses how social workers can develop cross-cultural engagement in practice and work creatively with the tensions it sometimes involves. Debates rage over whether there is a core set of unchangeable social work values or whether they might be different at different times and for different people. This textbook proposes a new approach of 'ethical pluralism' for social work practice, in which both shared humanity and the rich variety of cultures contribute to a more dynamic way of understanding social work's underpinning values and ethics. In particular, this book explores the implications of a pluralist approach to ethics for the central questions of: Human rights and social justice Caring relationships Social and personal responsibilities Agency and autonomy Values such as truth, honesty, openness, service and competence. It is vital that social workers understand the values and ethics of their profession as a crucial part of the foundations on which practice is built and this is the only text to explore the connections between culture, values and ethics and fully develop the pluralist approach in social work. Culture, Values and Ethics in Social Work is essential reading for all social work students and academics"--