The Black Coptic Church: Race and Imagination in a New Religion

Leonard Cornell McKinnis II
NYU Press

Drawing on ten years of archival research and interviews with current members of the church, The Black Coptic Church offers a look at a group that insisted on its own understanding of its divine Blackness. In the process, it provides a more complex look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, particularly within non-mainstream Christian churches.

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