Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. “Ethiopia Shall Suddenly Stretch Out Her Hands”: The Tremors of Apocalyptic Ethiopianism 17
5. 2. Otherwise than Exodus: Painting the Great Migration as the Rest on the Flight into Egypt 53
6. 3. Pan-African Peregrinations: Foreign Missions and the Rise of Ethiopianism in Chicago 89
7. 4. Revelation Steals Away: Ethiopianist Theology and the Critique of Capitalism in the Great Depression 119
8. 5. “Send Bullets, Not Bibles”: Black Chicago Protestants and the Italo-Ethiopian War 143
9. 6. From Plantation Melodies to Yoruba Gospel: Ethiopianism, Music, and Decolonization 165
10. 7. Decolonizing Worldliness: Ethiopianism, African Independence, and the Civil Rights Movement 191
11. Coda: Three Little Words 216
12. Notes 221
13. Index 265
14. Acknowledgments 275