{"id":1119,"date":"2013-10-25T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/10\/how-new-religions-are-made.html"},"modified":"2013-10-25T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T09:58:00","slug":"how-new-religions-are-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/10\/how-new-religions-are-made.html","title":{"rendered":"How New Religions Are Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><ul id=\"bookInfoContainer\" style=\"background-color: white;margin: 0px 0px 10px;padding: 0px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/images\/managed\/chosenpeople_302.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;color: #555555;float: right;font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/images\/managed\/chosenpeople_302.jpg\" style=\"background-color: transparent\" width=\"206\"><\/a>\n<li id=\"bookTitle\" style=\"font-style: italic;margin: 0px 0px 2px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions<\/span><\/li>\n<li id=\"publisher\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 2px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">by Jacob S. Dorman<\/span><\/li>\n<li id=\"publisher\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 2px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Oxford University Press, 2013<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"dropcap\" style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 15px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-top: 0px\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">What inspired you to write\u00a0<em>Chosen People<\/em>? What sparked your interest?<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 15px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-top: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">When I was in college I was interested in the similarities between Jewish and Black nationalisms, and began to learn Jewish and African American histories at Stanford University with Clayborne Carson, George Fredrickson, Sylvia Wynter, Mark Mancall, Arnie Eisen, and Tudor Parfitt.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 15px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-top: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">A chance encounter led me to visit the Original Hebrew Israelites of Dimona, Israel, and the experience was so powerful that I set out to study the antecedents of Black Israelite movements. At that time, Shlomo Levy, a Columbia University graduate student who was himself the son of one of the leading figures of the New York Israelite community, had begun to work with the Schomburg Center of the New York Public Library to collect papers from a dozen or so Black Israelite synagogues. I wrote an honors thesis on a small part of that collection, and then returned in graduate school to use the rest.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 15px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-top: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Working towards my doctorate at UCLA I was fortunate enough to study Black Atlantic religions with Donald Cosentino, and African American and West Indian histories with Brenda Stevenson, Gary Nash, and Bobby Hill. I was also inspired by seminars I took with Carlo Ginzburg, Peg Jacob, Lynn Hunt, Henry Yu, and others. I wanted to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/culturalstudiesnow.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/clifford-geertzs-thick-description.html\" style=\"text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">thickly describe<\/a>\u00a0African American Judaism from microhistorical, Black Atlantic, and African American Studies perspectives.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 15px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-top: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">The question of \u201cauthenticity\u201d that had dominated the accounts of so many white Jews was of little interest to me. What had gone missing in the limited literature on the topics was an attempt to tell the story of Black Israelites as an instance of African American history (in the hemispheric sense, including the West Indies), and an attempt to write Black Israelites into the larger stories of American religion and of Black Atlantic religions.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 15px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-top: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/books\/7329\/how_new_religions_are_made\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions by Jacob S. Dorman Oxford University Press, 2013 What inspired you to write\u00a0Chosen People? What sparked your interest? 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