Unfortunate Fall: Ethiopianism and Theodicy in Early Nineteenth-Century African American Thought
Many scholars of African American and Africana religions have argued that Ethiopianism provided a fertile vocabulary for making sense of Black suffering. Linking Ethiopianism especially to the prophetic genre of theodicy, this article contends that it also provided a narrative framework within which...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Journal of black religious thought
Year: 2023, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 22-39 |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethiopianism
B Theodicy B Maria Stewart B David Walker |
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| Summary: | Many scholars of African American and Africana religions have argued that Ethiopianism provided a fertile vocabulary for making sense of Black suffering. Linking Ethiopianism especially to the prophetic genre of theodicy, this article contends that it also provided a narrative framework within which nineteenth-century African Americans imagined and enacted novel forms of race-making and peoplehood. To this end, it offers readings of theodicy in the work of David Walker and Maria Stewart. In different ways, their uses of theodicy called into existence a global African community, whose boundaries exceeded the temporal and geographical parameters of the US and the Americas and whose agency was invested with God-given significance, such that, if exercised properly, Africans could work to redeem themselves from the horrors of the modern/colonial world. |
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| ISSN: | 2772-7955 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of black religious thought
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/27727963-02010002 |