![]() In her new book, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, Judith Weisenfeld explores how five religious communities created novel identities that were both religious and racial, or “religio-racial.” The Nation of Islam, the Congregation Beth B’nai Abraham, the Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation, the Moorish Science Temple of America, and Father Divine’s interracial Peace Mission Movement took root in cities from Chicago to New York, Philadelphia to Toledo, and beyond. ![]() ![]() The Great Migration of the 1920s and 1930s, when people of African descent moved from the American South and the Caribbean into cities of the American North, fostered a diverse urban religious culture. (George Rinhart/Getty/Corbis) Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford stands with members of the Congregation Beth B’nai Abraham. ![]()
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