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Religion, Race, and Ethnicity Ser.: Black Coptic Church : Race and Imagination in a New Religion by Leonard Cornell McKinnis II (2023, Hardcover)
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Author: Leonard Cornell McKinnis II. 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.
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PublisherNew York University Press
ISBN-101479816450
ISBN-139781479816453
eBay Product ID (ePID)14058369609
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBlack Coptic Church : Race and Imagination in a New Religion
SubjectBlack Studies (Global), Christianity / Baptist, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year2023
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, Social Science
AuthorLeonard Cornell Mckinnis II
SeriesReligion, Race, and Ethnicity Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight18.9 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2022-037447
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Reviews McKinnis's writing style is clear and inviting. . . . This book is poised to make a major contribution to American and African American religious studies. , The Black Coptic Church is a theoretically and methodologically rich text that portrays the Black Coptic Church as a site for the enactment of Black freedom ... Students and scholars interested in the study of American religion, especially Black religions in the United States, would benefit greatly from reading this work., McKinnis masterfully deconstructs popular incidents and historical figures, while narrating living conditions for persons previously unknown, which gives the book balance., McKinnis's writing style is clear and inviting. . . . This book is poised to make a major contribution to American and African American religious studies., The Black Coptic Church is a theoretically and methodologically rich text that portrays the Black Coptic Church as a site for the enactment of Black freedom... Students and scholars interested in the study of American religion, especially Black religions in the United States, would benefit greatly from reading this work., The book makes original contributions to our understanding of Black religious diversity, providing a theological portrait of an unexamined Black new religious movement and engaging the Black Coptic Church as a lens on religion and race in America., The book makes original contributions to our understanding of Black religious diversity, providing a theological portrait of an unexamined Black new religious movement and engaging the Black Coptic Church as a lens on religion and race in America. , Leonard McKinnis' volume illustrates how the BCC's religious imagination, like other Black religio-racial movements, vests Black people's bodies, histories, selfhoods with ultimacy and sacred meaning., These ideas are important for scholars of Black Thought and Religious Studies because this investigation demonstrates one of the critical functions which religion performs: that of the imaginary. All religions--indeed, all ideologies and systems of belief--attract members by providing an imaginary which helps them to understand their reality in a new way... The book's real value, however, is as a case study which illuminates the mechanisms of Black religion and religious formation generally. The book will be of great interest to scholars interested in Black religion, Black intellectual history, and Black Studies.
Series Volume Number3
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal230.08996
SynopsisProvides an illuminating look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, focusing particularly outside of mainstream Christian churches From 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 ......, Provides an illuminating look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, focusing particularly outside of mainstream Christian churches From 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., Provides an illuminating look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, focusing particularly outside of mainstream Christian churches From 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.
LC Classification NumberBP605.B625M38 2023
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