Description: "This book is an ethnographic study that explores the intersection of race, religion, and the construction of Black identity as imagined and performed in religious practices and rituals of the Black Coptic Church, an Ethiopianist New Religious Movement that emerged in Chicago during the Great Migration"--
Brief description: Leonard Cornell McKinnis II is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Religion and African American Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project.
Review Quotes: "The Black Coptic Church is a theoretically and methodologically rich text that portrays the Black Coptic Church as a site for the enactment of Black freedom ... Students and scholars interested in the study of American religion, especially Black religions in the United States, would benefit greatly from reading this work."-- "Reading Religion"