Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism

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• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgments vii
• Contents ix
• Contributors xi
• Introduction 3
• Notes 10
• Part I - African American Jews and Israelites 13
• 1 - Black Culture and Black Zion African American Religious Encounters with Judaism, 1790-1930, an Overview 15
• Notes 28
• 2 - African American Jews Dispelling Myths, Bridging the Divide 33
• Notes 51
• 3 - Symbolic Identity Formation in an African American Religious Sect the Black Hebrew Israelites 55
• Notes 70
• 4 - Another Exodus the Hebrew Israelites from Chicago to Dimona 73
• Part II African American Muslims and Judaism 89
• 5 - The Proximate Other the Nation of Islam and Judaism 91

• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgments vii
• Contents ix
• Contributors xi
• Introduction 3
• Notes 10
• Part I - African American Jews and Israelites 13
• 1 - Black Culture and Black Zion African American Religious Encounters with Judaism, 1790-1930, an Overview 15
• Notes 28
• 2 - African American Jews Dispelling Myths, Bridging the Divide 33
• Notes 51
• 3 - Symbolic Identity Formation in an African American Religious Sect the Black Hebrew Israelites 55
• Notes 70
• 4 - Another Exodus the Hebrew Israelites from Chicago to Dimona 73
• Part II African American Muslims and Judaism 89
• 5 - The Proximate Other the Nation of Islam and Judaism 91
• Notes 113
• 6 - The Nubian Islaamic Hebrews, Ansaaru Allah Community Jewish Teachings of an African American Muslim Community 118
• Notes 138
• Part III - African American Christianity and Judaism 151
• 7 - Remembering Nehemiah a Note on Biblical Theology 153
• Notes 166
• 8 - Theological Affinities in the Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr. 168
• Notes 184
• 9 - This is the Gateway to the Lord the Legacy of Synagogue Buildings for African American Churches on Cincinnati's Reading Road 187
• Notes 201
• 10 - "The Jew" in the Haitian Imagination Pre-Modern Anti-Judaism in the Postmodern Caribbean 203
• Notes 223
• Selected Bibliography 229
• Index 237