Chosen people : the rise of American Black Israelite religions /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dorman, Jacob S., 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • "This is our Red Sea": exodusters, prophet William Saunders Crowdy, and the beginnings of black Israelism
  • "Equivalent to Israelism": inheritance, freemasonry, and the ancient Israelites
  • "We are Israelites but not Jews": orientalism and Israelism in the holiness-Pentecostal movement
  • "Our only hope, our only salvation as a race": Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford, Ethiopianism, and African American settlers in Ethiopia
  • "I saw you disappear with my own eyes": hidden transcripts of Rabbi Wentworth a. Matthew's black Israelite bricolage.