The Black Presence at the World's Parliament of Religions, 1893
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4372899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Keith Naylor (Occidental College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 249-259 |
| Publication date | 1996-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1006/reli.1996.0019 |
| OpenAlex | W2018734895 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Countering traditional views of the World's Parliament of Religions as primarily an event of religious pluralism, this paper examines how the African Methodist Episcopal Church transformed the Parliament into a world court of opinion regarding racial equality. Using Higginbotham's idea of the Black church as a ‘discursive, critical arena’, I show how Black religionists constructed a rhetoric of equality, challenging the themes of unity that pervaded the Parliament. I argue that in locating their challenge at the world's fair, a major event of cultural self-examination, Blacks acted out some of the most original purposes of a church, working with symbols to generate reform
Epistemology · Parliament · Pluralism (philosophy) · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |