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    NEW WORLD A-COMING: BLACK RELIGION AND RACIAL IDENTITY DURING THE GREAT MIGRATION

    Book ID/图书代码: 06684517C00150

    English Summary/英文概要: When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute “Ethiopian Hebrew.” “God did not make us Negroes,” declared religious leaders in black communities of the early twentieth-century urban North. They insisted that so-called Negroes are, in reality, Ethiopian Hebrews, Asiatic Muslims, or raceless children of God. Rejecting conventional American racial classification, many black southern migrants and immigrants from the Caribbean embraced these alternative visions of black history, racial identity, and collective future, thereby reshaping the black religious and racial landscape.

    Focusing on the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, Father Divine’s Peace Mission Movement, and a number of congregations of Ethiopian Hebrews, Judith Weisenfeld argues that the appeal of these groups lay not only in the new religious opportunities membership provided, but also in the novel ways they formulated a religio-racial identity. Arguing that members of these groups understood their religious and racial identities as divinely-ordained and inseparable, the book examines how this sense of self shaped their conceptions of their bodies, families, religious and social communities, space and place, and political sensibilities.

    Weisenfeld draws on extensive archival research and incorporates a rich array of sources to highlight the experiences of average members. The book demonstrates that the efforts by members of these movements to contest conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America about the nature of racial identity and the collective future of black people that still resonate today.

    Chinese Summary/中文概要: 当Joseph Nathaniel Beckles在1942年登记入伍时,他反感表格上的人种选项,建议将“黑人”这个选项用“埃塞俄比亚希伯来人”替代。这位二十世纪初的黑人宗教领袖宣称:“上帝创造我们的时候并不想将我们叫做黑人。”他们认为那些所谓的黑人其实应该属于埃塞俄比亚希伯来人、亚洲穆斯林或者上帝的没有种族的孩子。因为反对美国传统对于人种的分类,很多南方的黑人移民以及加勒比地区的移民都认为这才是自己家族的历史,由此重新塑造了黑人的宗教和人种分部。

    本书关注摩尔人的科学庙宇、伊斯兰国以及Divine牧师的和平运动以及其他一些埃塞俄比亚希伯来人的社区,Judith Weisenfeld认为这些团体的诉求并不仅仅是为成员提供了新的宗教机遇,而是创造了一个宗教和种族结合的新身份。这些团体的成员能够从而理解自己的宗教信仰和种族身份,因为这些身份都是神认可 的、启发的。本书就探索了这些自我形成的对于自身、家族、宗教和社会团体的认识。

    Weisenfeld大量参考文献和已有的研究,最终用详实的资料展现了这些个人的经历。书中展现了这场运动中个人为了对抗传统的人种设定而做出的种种努力,最终他们都为形成一场美国黑人的种族身份以及今日地位的大讨论做出了自己的贡献。(LYR)

    Awards/获奖情况:"Weisenfeld的文字信息量大,分析透彻,能够再现两次世界大战期间美国黑人爆发的宗教运动。书中为我们展现了非裔美国人的生活,他们拒绝认同现有的种族划分而试图去重新定义自己的生活和自己的身份。书中的内容经过了详细的调查、写得很精致详细,文笔优美。(Paul Harvey,科罗拉多大学)

    了不起的调查工作才有了这本以人种、宗教和大移民为对象的著作。这些经过反复大量调查才能写成的故事描述了在那个年代具有代表性的组织的形成和目标。Weisenfeld的这本书重新定义了非裔美国人的宗教史、美国的宗教史以及各个人种在美国的历史,这是一本既适合随便翻阅也适合学者们认真研读的书籍。(Anthea Butler,宾夕法尼亚大学)

    "Innovatively researched, elegantly written, and persuasively argued, Judith Weisenfeld s new history of African American religious groups is a major contribution to the study of African American religions during the Great Migration. Weisenfeld deftly uses draft records, death certificates, immigration forms, and other bureaucratic documents to breathe life into the stories of Southern migrants, Northern residents, and Caribbean immigrants who joined Jewish, Muslim, and other prophetic religious movements. These new religious movements, Weisenfeld reveals, resisted racial identities imposed upon them by an increasingly powerful state and fellow American citizens alike. Their religious commitments, expressed not only in a rich theological imagination but also in material culture, ritual activity, and institution-building, created new collective racial identities invested in the redemption of Black peoplehood. Weisenfeld s beautifully rendered story will engage both scholars and general readers interested in religion, U.S. history, and Africana studies."-Edward E. Curtis IV, Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis"

    "Weisenfeld’s richly informative and analytically sharp social history resurrects worlds of black American new religious movements in the interwar years. With particularly adept use of bureaucratic records, she gives us a new picture of the lives of African Americans who rejected categories given to them and sought to redefine their own lives and reinvent their own identities. Meticulously researched, provocatively written, and beautifully detailed."-Paul Harvey, University of Colorado Colorado Springs

    A magnificent, thoughtfully researched work which breaks new theoretical ground on race, religion and the great migration. These compelling, exquisitely researched stories of the lives of devoted participants in the Moorish Science Temple, Ethiopian Hebrews, Father Divine and the NOI reconfigure the cult/ sect status that has historically labeled these groups. Weisenfeld’s book redefines the contours of African American Religious history, American religion, and race in American history, and is a must read for the casual reader and established scholar alike."-Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania"

    "For too long Christianity has reigned over our histories of African America. This book definitively establishes the plurality of black religious experience and the definitive role religions had in the formation of twentieth-century racial identity. Reading unconventional sources and unearthing forgotten (but now unforgettable) figures, Weisenfeld offers an exemplary study of religion as a form of social and cultural criticism. There is no historian working with greater precision in the study of religion in America today."-Kathryn Lofton, Yale University

    "A comprehensive study of the formation of 20th-century black religious movements...Weisenfeld’s wide-ranging study is eloquent yet succinct."-Publishers Weekly

    About the Author/作者介绍: Judith Weisenfeld是普林斯顿大学宗教学教授。她著有《Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949》以及《African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945》。

    Judith Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 and African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945.

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