Black visions of the Holy Land : African American Christian engagement with Israel and Palestine /

This book explores how expressions of American Black religious politics diverge in their interpretations of the Bible, their public theologies and their modes of political engagement while simultaneously making universal claims about "the Black Church" and African American collective ident...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Baumann, Roger, 1975- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2024].
Series:	Columbia series on religion and politics.
Subjects:	African American churches. African Americans > Religion. African Americans > Relations with Jews. African Americans > Attitudes. Public opinion > Israel. Christian Zionism. United States > Race relations.

Table of Contents:

Standing with Israel : African American Christian Zionism
Journeys to justice : African American Christian Palestinian solidarity
"My pastor is where? He's in Israel?!" : Black pastors as brokers and mobilizers
Walking in the footsteps of a whitewashed Jesus?
The field of Black religious politics.