04258oam 22006374a 450 991013683970332120210716202005.01-4798-5368-210.18574/9781479853687(CKB)3710000000907559(MiAaPQ)EBC4500674(DE-B1597)547221(DE-B1597)9781479853687(OCoLC)966811046(MdBmJHUP)muse87064(OCoLC)961063011(EXLCZ)99371000000090755920161216h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierNew World A-ComingBlack Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration /Judith WeisenfeldNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (269 pages) illustrations, tables, photographs1-4798-8880-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 authorWhen 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.Race relationsReligious aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst01086522Race relationsfast(OCoLC)fst01086509African AmericansReligionfast(OCoLC)fst00799689African AmericansRace identityfast(OCoLC)fst00799666Race relationsReligious aspectsAfrican AmericansRace identityHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansReligionHistory20th centuryUnited StatesfastUnited StatesRace relations21st centuryElectronic books.Race relationsReligious aspects.Race relations.African AmericansReligion.African AmericansRace identity.Race relationsReligious aspects.African AmericansRace identityHistoryAfrican AmericansReligionHistory200.89960730000001Weisenfeld Judith859038MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910136839703321New World A-Coming2490875UNINA