Zion's Home Monthly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zion's Home Monthly write by . This book was released on 1888. Zion's Home Monthly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A.M.F. Monthly
A.M.F. Monthly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A.M.F. Monthly write by . This book was released on 1903. A.M.F. Monthly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Voice from Zion
A Voice from Zion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Voice from Zion write by . This book was released on 1901. A Voice from Zion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Searching for Zion
Searching for Zion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Searching for Zion write by Emily Raboteau. This book was released on 2013-01-08. Searching for Zion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Jerusalem to Ghana to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, a woman reclaims her history in a “beautifully written and thought-provoking” memoir (Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King and Zeitoun). A biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, Emily Raboteau never felt at home in America. As the daughter of an African American religious historian, she understood the Promised Land as the spiritual realm black people yearned for. But while visiting Israel, the Jewish Zion, she was surprised to discover black Jews. More surprising was the story of how they got there. Inspired by their exodus, her question for them is the same one she keeps asking herself: have you found the home you’re looking for? In this American Book Award–winning inquiry into contemporary and historical ethnic displacement, Raboteau embarked on a ten-year journey around the globe and back in time to explore the complex and contradictory perspectives of black Zionists. She talked to Rastafarians and African Hebrew Israelites, Evangelicals and Ethiopian Jews—all in search of territory that is hard to define and harder to inhabit. Uniting memoir with cultural investigation, Raboteau overturns our ideas of place, patriotism, dispossession, citizenship, and country in “an exceptionally beautiful . . . book about a search for the kind of home for which there is no straight route, the kind of home in which the journey itself is as revelatory as the destination” (Edwidge Danticat, author of The Farming of Bones).
Our Southern Zion
Our Southern Zion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Southern Zion write by Erskine Clarke. This book was released on 2014-08-15. Our Southern Zion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of the ways a particular religious tradition and a distinct social context have interacted over a 300-year period, including the unique story of the oldest and largest African American Calvinist community in America The South Carolina low country has long been regarded—not only in popular imagination and paperback novels but also by respected scholars—as a region dominated by what earlier historians called “a cavalier spirit” and by what later historians have simply described as “a wholehearted devotion to amusement and the neglect of religion and intellectual pursuits.” Such images of the low country have been powerful interpreters of the region because they have had some foundation in social and cultural realities. It is a thesis of this study, however, that there has been a strong Calvinist community in the Carolina low country since its establishment as a British colony and that this community (including in its membership both whites and after the 1740s significant numbers of African Americans) contradicts many of the images of the "received version" of the region. Rather than a devotion to amusement and a neglect of religion and intellectual interests, this community has been marked throughout most of its history by its disciplined religious life, its intellectual pursuits, and its work ethic.
