Black Visions of the Holy Land: African American Christian Engagement with Israel and Palestine by Roger Baumann ISBN 9780231552639, 9780231198455, 0231552637, 0231198450 instant download

Black Visions of the Holy Land: African American Christian Engagement with Israel and Palestine by Roger Baumann ISBN 9780231552639, 9780231198455, 0231552637, 0231198450 instant download

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.