This text introduces Ben Ammi, the leader and theologian of the African Hebrew Israelite community, as a systematic thinker and theologian. It examines his many books and speeches in order to provide a comprehensive introduction to his thought in the context of both African American and Jewish contemporaries and precursors. Divided into three thematic sections, History, Law, and Language, the text introduces Ben Ammi’s understanding of the nature of God, the responsibilities of the human, and the narrative of history. Ben Ammi was a deeply spiritual but also remarkably modern thinker who blended scientific thought into his evolving socio-theology, while seeking to remove religion from the realm of mythology. The book evaluates how Ben Ammi’s theology is one bound to concepts of humility and learning how to go with the grain of the natural world in order to find humanity’s true center as a part of nature.
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Introduction 1. By Means of a Beginning: History, Race, and Truth 2. As in the Days of Noah: Eschatology and Apocalypticism 3. Black Messiah: Ben Ammi, Yeshua, and Messianism 4. Pneumatic Immanence: God, Ontology, and Law 5. Divine Justice/Deserved Liberation: Suffering, Agency, and Chosenness 6. The Vital Self: Body, Soul, Spirit, World 7. The Power to Define: Words, Ideas, Names, and Scripture 8. Revolutionary Conservatism: Social Theory, Human Life, and Gender Conclusion: Gnostic and Kabbalistic Reflections Bibliography Index
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Ben Ammi Ben Israel, the man and messiah figure, is one of the most interesting spiritual leaders to emerge in African American history. This thorough and thoughtful book by Michael Miller takes him seriously as a revolutionary thinker who challenges much of what we think we know about black politics, culture, language, life and death today.
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Investigates the many books and speeches of Ben Ammi, the African Hebrew Israelite spiritual leader, providing a comprehensive introduction to his thought in the context of both African American and Jewish contemporaries and precursors.
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Offers a comprehensive overview of the thought of the most successful and influential Hebrew Israelite leader
Bloomsbury Studies in Black Religion and Cultures advances innovative scholarship that reimagines and animates the global study of black religions, culture, and identity across space and time. The series publishes scholarship that addresses the mutually constitutive nature of race and religion and the social, cultural, intellectual, and material effects of religio-racial formations and identities. The series welcomes projects that address and foreground the intersectional and constitutive nature of black religions and cultures and privileges work that is inter/transdisciplinary and methodologically intersectional in nature.
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ISBN
9781350295131
Publisert
2023-08-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
254

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Michael T. Miller is Associate Researcher at the Polish Institute of Advances Studies, Poland.