Black Visions Of The Holy Land

Author : Roger Baumann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231552639

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Black Visions of the Holy Land by Roger Baumann Pdf

Since at least the high point of the civil rights movement, African American Christianity has been widely recognized as a potent force for social change. Most attention to the political significance of Black churches, however, focuses on domestic protest and electoral politics. Yet some Black churches take a deep interest in the global issue of Israel and Palestine. Why would African American Christians get involved—and even take sides—in Palestine and Israel, and what does that reveal about the political significance of “the Black Church” today? This book examines African American Christian involvement in Israel and Palestine to show how competing visions of “the Black Church” are changing through transnational political engagement. Considering cases ranging from African American Christian Zionists to Palestinian solidarity activists, Roger Baumann traces how Black religious politics transcend domestic arenas and enter global spaces. These cases, he argues, illuminate how the meaning of the ostensibly singular and unifying category of “the Black Church”—spanning its history, identity, culture, and mission—is deeply contested at every turn. Black Visions of the Holy Land offers new insights into how Black churches understand their political role and social significance; the ways race, religion, and politics both converge and diverge; and why the meaning of overlapping racial and religious identities shifts when moving from national to global contexts.

Author : Ashon T. Crawley
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823274567

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Blackpentecostal Breath by Ashon T. Crawley Pdf

In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies to theology, continental philosophy, and performance studies to theorize the ways in which alternative or “otherwise” modes of existence can serve as disruptions against the marginalization of and violence against minoritarian lifeworlds and possibilities for flourishing. Examining the whooping, shouting, noise-making, and speaking in tongues of Black Pentecostalism—a multi-racial, multi-class, multi-national Christian sect with one strand of its modern genesis in 1906 Los Angeles—Blackpentecostal Breath reveals how these aesthetic practices allow for the emergence of alternative modes of social organization. As Crawley deftly reveals, these choreographic, sonic, and visual practices and the sensual experiences they create are not only important for imagining what Crawley identifies as “otherwise worlds of possibility,” they also yield a general hermeneutics, a methodology for reading culture in an era when such expressions are increasingly under siege.

Author : William L. Davis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469655673

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Visions in a Seer Stone by William L. Davis Pdf

In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion for self-improvement, Davis elucidates both the fascinating cultural context for the creation of the Book of Mormon and the central role of oral culture in early nineteenth-century America. Drawing on performance studies, religious studies, literary culture, and the history of early American education, Davis analyzes Smith's process of oral composition. How did he produce a history spanning a period of 1,000 years, filled with hundreds of distinct characters and episodes, all cohesively tied together in an overarching narrative? Eyewitnesses claimed that Smith never looked at notes, manuscripts, or books—he simply spoke the words of this American religious epic into existence. Judging the truth of this process is not Davis's interest. Rather, he reveals a kaleidoscope of practices and styles that converged around Smith's creation, with an emphasis on the evangelical preaching styles popularized by the renowned George Whitefield and John Wesley.

Author : Judith Weisenfeld
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479865857

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New World A-Coming by Judith Weisenfeld Pdf

"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."--Publisher's description.

Author : Lyn Di Iorio Sandín,R. Perez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137329240

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Moments of Magical Realism in US Ethnic Literatures by Lyn Di Iorio Sandín,R. Perez Pdf

A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories.

Author : Cone, James, H.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337729

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Black Theology and Black Power by Cone, James, H. Pdf

"The introduction to this edition by Cornel West was originally published in Dwight N. Hopkins, ed., Black Faith and Public Talk: Critical Essays on James H. Cone's Black Theology & Black Power (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999; reprinted 2007 by Baylor University Press)."

Author : William Sampson Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015054270684

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Footprints of a Black Man by William Sampson Brooks Pdf

Author : Ateek, Naim Stifan
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337255

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A Palestinian Theology of Liberation by Ateek, Naim Stifan Pdf

Author : Micah Goodman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300240788

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Catch-67 by Micah Goodman Pdf

A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a best-selling Israeli author Since the Six-Day War, Israelis have been entrenched in a national debate over whether to keep the land they conquered or to return some, if not all, of the territories to Palestinians. In a balanced and insightful analysis, Micah Goodman deftly sheds light on the ideas that have shaped Israelis' thinking on both sides of the debate, and among secular and religious Jews about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Contrary to opinions that dominate the discussion, he shows that the paradox of Israeli political discourse is that both sides are right in what they affirm—and wrong in what they deny. Although he concludes that the conflict cannot be solved, Goodman is far from a pessimist and explores how instead it can be reduced in scope and danger through limited, practical steps. Through philosophical critique and political analysis, Goodman builds a creative, compelling case for pragmatism in a dispute where a comprehensive solution seems impossible.

Author : Douglas, Kelly Brown
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337781

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The Black Christ by Douglas, Kelly Brown Pdf

Author : Christopher Sergel,John Gneiseau Neihardt
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0871294478

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The Sacred Hoop by Christopher Sergel,John Gneiseau Neihardt Pdf

Author : Onaje X. O. Woodbine
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231541121

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Black Gods of the Asphalt by Onaje X. O. Woodbine Pdf

J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. "I play just like my father," he says. "Before my father died, he was a problem on the court. I'm a problem." Playing basketball for him fuses past and present, conjuring his father's memory into a force that opponents can feel in each bone-snapping drive to the basket. On the street, every ballplayer has a story. Onaje X. O. Woodbine, a former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer, brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. He shows that big games have a trickster figure and a master of black talk whose commentary interprets the game for audiences. The beats of hip-hop and reggae make up the soundtrack, and the ballplayers are half-men, half-heroes, defying the ghetto's limitations with their flights to the basket. Basketball is popular among young black American men but not because, as many claim, they are "pushed by poverty" or "pulled" by white institutions to play it. Black men choose to participate in basketball because of the transcendent experience of the game. Through interviews with and observations of urban basketball players, Onaje X. O. Woodbine composes a rare portrait of a passionate, committed, and resilient group of athletes who use the court to mine what urban life cannot corrupt. If people turn to religion to reimagine their place in the world, then black streetball players are indeed the hierophants of the asphalt.

Author : Jennifer Graber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190279639

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The Gods of Indian Country by Jennifer Graber Pdf

During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people. Though this process was certainly a clash of rival economic systems and racial ideologies, it was also a profound spiritual struggle. The fight over Indian Country sparked religious crises among both Natives and Americans. In The Gods of Indian Country, Jennifer Graber tells the story of the Kiowa Indians during Anglo-Americans' hundred-year effort to seize their homeland. Like Native people across the American West, Kiowas had known struggle and dislocation before. But the forces bearing down on them-soldiers, missionaries, and government officials-were unrelenting. With pressure mounting, Kiowas adapted their ritual practices in the hope that they could use sacred power to save their lands and community. Against the Kiowas stood Protestant and Catholic leaders, missionaries, and reformers who hoped to remake Indian Country. These activists saw themselves as the Indians' friends, teachers, and protectors. They also asserted the primacy of white Christian civilization and the need to transform the spiritual and material lives of Native people. When Kiowas and other Native people resisted their designs, these Christians supported policies that broke treaties and appropriated Indian lands. They argued that the gifts bestowed by Christianity and civilization outweighed the pains that accompanied the denial of freedoms, the destruction of communities, and the theft of resources. In order to secure Indian Country and control indigenous populations, Christian activists sanctified the economic and racial hierarchies of their day. The Gods of Indian Country tells a complex, fascinating-and ultimately heartbreaking-tale of the struggle for the American West.

Author : Malcolm Croft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780711282131

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The Planet's Most Spiritual Places by Malcolm Croft Pdf

The Planet's Most Spiritual Places presents the 100 most important faith and spiritual sites from all over the world.

Author : Al Hajji Robert J. Rowland
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781462803279

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From the Hood to the Holy Land and Back Plus More by Al Hajji Robert J. Rowland Pdf

Robert J Rowland, A.K.A. ( Squirrelly ) Al Hajji Omowalle Alif Abdul Rakiem, Which means The first son, who has return home a servant of God, the writer, who has made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Al Hajji the poet, songwriter and Manager, was born in Mayfield , Kentucky and raised in E. Palo Alto California. He now resides in Nashville, TN. He went back to college and received his Bachelor of Science in Business Management at Mid-Continent University in. Mayfield, KY. Al Hajji creative side goes back to his first musical group in California called the Ambassadors, a five man singing group, with showman ship and harmonies that drew much applause in local talent shows and nightclubs in the San Francisco Bay area. He left California after High school and attended Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN., on a baseball scholarship. At TSU , he developed his poetry and songwriting skills, and was a member of the Natural Experience singing group, where he played percussion. He also co-founded the Poets and Songwriters Association of TSU, which is still a charter organization on campus. Al Hajji also was a member of the Total Experience Record Company, where he signed and artist and songwriting contract. There he befriended the Gap Band, Yarborough & Peoples, Goodie, Val Young, Lonnie Simmons and Don Alexander the owners. Over the years he has been active in the music industry, giving workshop on writing and the business end of music. Singing at weddings and receptions and work with Alicia 4bia Cherry as a personal manager, where he became friends With the late Lisa Left Eye Lopes ( N.I.N.A. ) Raina ( Raindrop) Lopes, Kisha Spivey of the group Total and the girl group Egypt. May God have Mercy on our world