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The Matter of Race: Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black and the Retelling of African American History through Orthodox Christian Forms
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Pub Date : 2021-02-12 , DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfab025
Elena V Kravchenko 1
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This article looks at how contemporary African American converts to Orthodox Christianity, specifically the members of the Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black,1 use religion to understand and remember the struggle of Black people against racial discrimination in the United States. As I examine how practitioners interpreted and preserved African American history—the attempts to abolish slavery, the fight to end lynching, and the Civil Rights movement—through Orthodox forms of materiality, I demonstrate that African Americans drew on an established tradition to authorize new ways of practicing Orthodoxy and being Orthodox. I argue that by using icons of the Theotokos to tell stories about her intervention during a lynching, memorializing lives of Black American martyrs in cemetery stones, and engaging with relics of African American saints, these practitioners followed in the footsteps of other Orthodox people—who creatively adopted the ritual life of the Church to their own needs while making an effort to adhere to its traditional dogmatism—and therefore should be considered as a paradigmatic and not an exceptional example of Orthodox Christians.

中文翻译:

种族问题:黑人圣摩西兄弟会和通过正统基督教形式重述非裔美国人历史

本文着眼于当代非裔美国人如何皈依东正教,特别是黑人圣摩西兄弟会的成员,1 利用宗教来理解和记住美国黑人反对种族歧视的斗争。当我研究从业者如何通过正统的物质形式来解释和保存非裔美国人的历史——废除奴隶制的努力、结束私刑的斗争和民权运动——时,我证明了非裔美国人利用既定的传统来授权新的方式实践正统和成为正统。我认为,通过使用 Theotokos 的偶像来讲述她在私刑期间干预的故事,在墓碑上纪念美国黑人烈士的生活,以及与非裔美国圣徒的遗物接触,
更新日期:2021-02-12
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