| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Religion in America series
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Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index. |
| Contents |
Black culture and black Zion : African American religious encounters with Judaism, 1790-1930, an overview / Yvonne Chireau -- African American Jews : dispelling myths, bridging the divide / Bernard J. Wolfson -- Symbolic identity formation in an African American religious sect : the Black Hebrew Israelites / Merrill Singer -- Another exodus : the Hebrew Israelites from Chicago to Dimona / Ethan Michaeli -- Proximate other : the Nation of Islam and Judaism / Nathaniel Deutsch -- Nubian Islaamic Hebrews, Ansaaru Allah Community : Jewish teachings of an African American Muslim community / Kathleen Malone O'Connor -- Remembering Nehemiah : a note on Biblical theology / Allen Dwight Callahan -- Theological affinities in the writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr. / Susannah Heschel -- This is the gateway to the Lord : the legacy of synagogue buildings for African American churches on Cincinnati's Reading Road / Karla Goldman -- "Jew" in the Haitian imagination : pre-modern anti-Judaism in the postmodern Caribbean / Elizabeth A. McAlister. |
| Summary |
This is an exploration of the interaction between African American religions and Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. The collection's argument is that religion is the missing piece of the cultural jigsaw, and black-Jewish relations need the religious roots of their problem illuminated. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Relations with Jews.
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African Americans -- Relations with Jews. |
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African Americans -- Religion.
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African Americans -- Religion. |
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Black Hebrews.
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Black Hebrews. |
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Black Muslims.
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Black Muslims. |
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Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Judaism. |
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Relations. |
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Christianity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Chireau, Yvonne Patricia, 1961-
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Deutsch, Nathaniel.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Black Zion. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 0195112571 019511258X (DLC) 99039278 (OCoLC)42397023 |
| ISBN |
1423759656 (electronic book) |
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9781423759652 (electronic book) |
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9780195112573 (alkaline paper) |
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0195112571 (alkaline paper) |
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9780195112580 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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019511258X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781602561809 (electronic book) |
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160256180X (electronic book) |
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