Nationhood and Resistance: New World A-Coming and the (Re)making of Race, Religion, and Nation in African American History

This essay compares Weisenfeld's “religio-racial” movements to contemporaneous Jewish nationalist and Zionist movements, suggesting that the axis of nation is just as important as race and religion for understanding their various efforts to reconfigure communal identities and to position themse...

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Published in:Journal of Africana religions
Subtitles:ROUNDTABLE Judith Weisenfeld's New World A-Coming
Main Author: Wenger, Tisa Joy 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press 2018
In: Journal of Africana religions
Review of:New world a-coming (New York : New York University Press, 2016) (Wenger, Tisa Joy)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Blacks / Religious movement / Zionism / Nationalism / History 1910-1970
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AF Geography of religion
AZ New religious movements
BH Judaism
KBQ North America
NCC Social ethics
NCD Political ethics
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Book review
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:This essay compares Weisenfeld's “religio-racial” movements to contemporaneous Jewish nationalist and Zionist movements, suggesting that the axis of nation is just as important as race and religion for understanding their various efforts to reconfigure communal identities and to position themselves in relation to global systems of race and empire.
ISSN:2165-5413
Reference:Kritik in "New World A-Coming, Author's Response (2018)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions