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

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

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Author / Creator:	Baumann, Roger, 1975- author.
Uniform title:	Black visions of the Holy Land
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]
Description:	ix, 314 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Columbia series on religion and politics Columbia series on religion and politics.
Subject:	African American churches. African Americans -- Religion. African Americans -- Relations with Jews. African Americans -- Attitudes. Public opinion -- Israel. Christian Zionism. United States -- Race relations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13478205

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ISBN:	9780231198448 0231198442 9780231198455 0231198450 9780231552639
Notes:	Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University, 2020, under the title : Black visions of the Holy Land : African American Christians, Israel & Palestine. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"[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 identity. The book examines these tensions through a study of global solidarities linking African American Christians with Israel and Palestine. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the United States and in Israel-Palestine, the book analyzes a wide range of responses to the conflict-from pro-Israel African American Christian Zionists who work closely with the religious right to Christian Palestinian solidarity activists who emphasize a common emancipatory project between African Americans and Palestinians. Roger Baumann argues that Black religious politics is best understood in social theoretic terms as a field of contestation--a focus on both political practice and political theory--accounting for competing claims to what "the Black Church" is and what it ought to be doing. He also argues that African American Christian engagement with Israel and Palestine is, in part, an expression of existing identities-based on notions of shared Black church history and culture. Thus, the book demonstrates how this issue provides a new context for reworking the alignment of such existing racial, religious, and political identities in global terms. In analyzing the overlapping significance of race and religion in transnational political engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the book also speaks to intensifying debates in American politics about racial polarization and the waning of longstanding bipartisan consensus about the pillars of U.S.-Israel relations.""--

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Summary:	Since at least the high point of the civil rights movement, African American Christianity has been widely recognized as a potent force for social change. Most attention to the political significance of Black churches, however, focuses on domestic protest and electoral politics. Yet some Black churches take a deep interest in the global issue of Israel and Palestine. Why would African American Christians get involved--and even take sides--in Palestine and Israel, and what does that reveal about the political significance of "the Black Church" today?<br> <br> This book examines African American Christian involvement in Israel and Palestine to show how competing visions of "the Black Church" are changing through transnational political engagement. Considering cases ranging from African American Christian Zionists to Palestinian solidarity activists, Roger Baumann traces how Black religious politics transcend domestic arenas and enter global spaces. These cases, he argues, illuminate how the meaning of the ostensibly singular and unifying category of "the Black Church"--spanning its history, identity, culture, and mission--is deeply contested at every turn. Black Visions of the Holy Land offers new insights into how Black churches understand their political role and social significance; the ways race, religion, and politics both converge and diverge; and why the meaning of overlapping racial and religious identities shifts when moving from national to global contexts.
Item Description:	Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University, 2020, under the title : Black visions of the Holy Land : African American Christians, Israel & Palestine.
Physical Description:	ix, 314 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780231198448 0231198442 9780231198455 0231198450 9780231552639