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“ONE GOD, ONE AIM, ONE DESTINY”: THE RELIGIOUS RESPONSE TO COLONIAL POWER IN THE UNITED IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

McCormick, Philip Anthony

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2011, Master of Arts, Miami University, Religion.
This paper provides religious analyses of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association [UNIA] outside of previous religious interpretations that utilize normative religious categories, i.e. the eschatological, ecclesiastical, and theological dimensions of Garveyism. This paper utilizes a methodological approach that is comparative in nature and focuses on the rise of European colonialism as a religious and material context that gave rise to Marcus Garvey and his movement. Utilizing methodologies from history of religions approaches, Marcus Garvey is analyzed as akin to a Cargo movement prophet who created rituals, costumes and deployed colonial symbolism to reconcile the dehumanizing effects of colonialism, and to point to a new mode of existence for followers of the UNIA.
Peter Williams, PhD (Advisor)
Lisa Poirier, PhD (Other)
Mark Christian, PhD (Other)
60 p.

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  • McCormick, P. A. (2011). “ONE GOD, ONE AIM, ONE DESTINY”: THE RELIGIOUS RESPONSE TO COLONIAL POWER IN THE UNITED IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1295013682

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McCormick, Philip. “ONE GOD, ONE AIM, ONE DESTINY”: THE RELIGIOUS RESPONSE TO COLONIAL POWER IN THE UNITED IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY. 2011. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1295013682.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McCormick, Philip. "“ONE GOD, ONE AIM, ONE DESTINY”: THE RELIGIOUS RESPONSE TO COLONIAL POWER IN THE UNITED IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1295013682

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)