The Other Black Church: Alternative Christian Movements and the
Struggle for Black Freedom examines the movements led by Father
Divine, Charles Mason, and Albert Cleage (later known as Jaramogi
Abebe Agyeman) as alternative Christian movements in the middle of
the twentieth century that radically re-envisioned the limits and
possibilities of Black citizenship. These movements not only
rethink the value and import of Christian texts and reimagined the
role of the Black Christian prophetic tradition, but they also
outlined a new model of protest that challenged the language and
logic of Black essentialism, economic development, and the role of
the state. By placing these movements in conversation with the long
history of Black theology and Black religious studies, this book
suggests that alternative Christian movements are essential for
thinking about African American critiques of and responses to the
failures of U.S.-based democracy. These prophets of Black
theological thought and their attention to the limits of the state
and traditional Black religious formations are most fully
appreciated when studied in light of their conversations and
interactions with other key Black prophetic and theological figures
of the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately, The Other Black Church
will use those conversations and archives from these movements to
highlight their protest of the racial state, to explore the limits
of the Black church, and to argue for their continued significance
for thinking about the variety and vibrancy of Black protest,
specifically Black religious protest, during the twentieth century.
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