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Title
The Black Coptic Church : Race and Imagination in a New Religion / Leonard Cornell McKinnis.
ISBN
9781479816484
Published
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource : 21 b/w illustrations
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9781479816484.001.0001 doi
Call Number
BP605.B625 M38 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
299.6/7
Summary
Provides an illuminating look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, focusing particularly outside of mainstream Christian churchesFrom the Moorish Science Temple to the Peace Mission Movement of Father Divine to the Commandment Keepers sect of Black Judaism, myriad Black new religious movements developed during the time of the Great Migration. Many of these stood outside of Christianity, but some remained at least partially within the Christian fold. The Black Coptic Church is one of these. Black Coptics combined elements of Black Protestant and Black Hebrew traditions with Ethiopianism as a way of constructing a divine racial identity that embraced the idea of a royal Egyptian heritage for its African American followers, a heroic identity that was in stark contrast to the racial identity imposed on African Americans by the white dominant culture. This embrace of a royal Blackness-what McKinnis calls an act of "fugitive spirituality"-illuminates how the Black Coptic tradition in Chicago and beyond uniquely employs a religio-performative imagination. McKinnis asks, 'What does it mean to imagine Blackness?' Drawing on ten years of archival research and interviews with current members of the church, The Black Coptic Church offers a look at a group that insisted on its own understanding of its divine Blackness. In the process, it provides a more complex look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, particularly within non-mainstream Christian churches.
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text file PDF
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)
Series
Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Earthquake
1. The Origins of a Prophet: Cicero Patterson and the Black Coptic Imagination
2. "Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Forth Her Hand unto God": Imagination, Ideational Heroism, and the Turn to Blackness
3. Rituals of Freedom: Imagining and Performing Otherwise
4. "Somehow, Someway": Black Coptic Women and the Politics of Gender
5. Divine (Primordial) Blackness: Imagination, Hope, and a Word on Afro-Pessimism
Conclusion: Imagination and the Future of Black Coptic Religion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
