Judith Weisenfeld. New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration.

Angell, Stephen W.

doi:10.1093/ahr/123.1.247

Cited by 3 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Reading them together, it dawned on me that Lorde's New York University speech occurred only four months after she had written the letter to Daly. When Lorde called their racism and homophobia to the attention of the New York University audience, she was also calling on Daly to attend to her own religio-racism, to borrow Judith Weisenfeld's (2018) term, especially as it appeared in Gyn/ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (Daly, 1978). In the genre of the open letter, Lorde asked Daly directly about her citational practices:…”

Section: Citation Form and Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Faith in citation

Klassen

2024

Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A citation may be a gift or a curse, a clue or an erasure, a mode of argument or a piece of evidence. Or it might be all of these things, depending on who is writing and reading it. This essay engages with the varying ways that the articles in this special issue draw attention to the relational dynamics of citation – conversational, generous, aggressive, predatory or exclusionary – as the authors have experienced and analysed them within the study of religion and, more specifically, the anthropology of religion. Three primary questions are focused on: (1) how the form and mediation of a citation – for example, citing a book one read in a bricks-and-mortar library or online through an open-access pdf – change its purpose and possibility; (2) how different kinds of sources shape what citational practices are possible, with a comparative focus on norms of citation within anthropology and history; and (3) the liminality of religious studies as a field that is at once promiscuous and open-minded in its practices of citation. Across these questions, the author hopes to show that she has faith in citation as a necessary and adaptable tool in the ongoing work of scholarly creativity and critique.

show abstract

Section: Citation Form and Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Faith in citation

Klassen

2024

Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This dialectical approach codified a scholarly paradigm—again, with roots in the work of Du Bois—capable of accounting for both the diversity of expressions of Black religious life and the persistence of a totalizing and ostensibly overarching category like “the Black Church.” Building on this dialectical model, others have advanced complimentary approaches to understanding the diversity of Black churches using dialogical models (Higginbotham 1993) and a series of continua (Tucker‐Worgs 2011). Others have challenged the usefulness of “the Black Church” as an overarching analytic category, noting that its use typically comes embedded with specific assumptions about an ostensibly inherent political character that has always been debated and contested (Evans 2008; Hardy 2009; Savage 2008; Weisenfeld 2016).…”

Section: “The Black Church” In Du Bois and Aftermentioning

confidence: 99%

Race, Religion, and Global Solidarities: W. E. B. Du Bois and “The Black Church” as a Contested Category

Baumann

2023

Scientific Study of Religion

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

W.E.B. Du Bois was thoroughly ambivalent about the political significance of American Black churches regarding their role in challenging racial inequality. He saw them as integral to Black social life, but also as failing to live up to their potential as drivers of liberation. And, while he focused primarily on Black churches within the United States, Du Bois was also committed to Black liberation on a global level. This suggests great potential for applying DuBois’ analyses of Black religion to the question of transnational religious and racial solidarities and the global political salience of “the Black Church” as a category. In this context, this article explores the significance of DuBois’ work for analyzing the category of “the Black Church.” It does so through a comparative case study of African American Christian engagement with the issue of Israel and Palestine, with four case studies ranging from African American Christian Zionists to Palestinian solidarity activists. Across these cases, the analysis highlights the ways that the history, identity, and mission of “the Black Church” are invoked in the context of Palestine and Israel. It argues that “the Black Church” is best understood as a contested category of collective religious and racial identity.

show abstract

“…The result was the construction of Jews as a “religio‐racial” community, a term that Judith Weisenfeld coined to “capture the commitment of members of these groups to understanding individual and collective identity as constituted in the conjunction of religion and race” (Weisenfeld 2020:5). But unlike the people and communities that feature in Weisenfeld's work, the religio‐racial formation of American Jews has been constituted by avoiding substantive engagements with the racialized and ethnic identities of its members.…”

Section: Literature Review and Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Counting on Whiteness: Religion, race, ethnicity, and the politics of Jewish demography

Tapper

Kelman

Saperstein

2022

Scientific Study of Religion

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

American Jews have long been an anomaly for scholars concerned with understanding how they fit into extant social scientific or historical categories. Sometimes they seem best described as an ethnic group, other times as a religious one. This ambiguity has also vexed Jewish communal leaders whose desire to comprehend their communities has largely been underwritten by their intention to protect it. This intersection of sociological methods and schema and Jewish communal concerns has resulted in decisive omissions regarding how best to account for the racial and ethnic diversity of American Jews. An analysis of survey instruments used in 175 American Jewish population studies and community portraits conducted since 1970 reveals a focus on questions of religious practice and an avoidance of those about race and ethnicity, resulting in a "religio-racial formation" of American Jews as White. This approach to studying American Jewish life has marginalized or excluded non-White Jews while ensuring ongoing Jewish communal access to Whiteness without having to claim it explicitly.

show abstract

Judith Weisenfeld. New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration.

Cited by 3 publications

References 0 publications

Faith in citation

Faith in citation

Race, Religion, and Global Solidarities: W. E. B. Du Bois and “The Black Church” as a Contested Category

Counting on Whiteness: Religion, race, ethnicity, and the politics of Jewish demography

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About