Christian identity materials from the Hall-Hoag collection of dissenting and extremist printed propaganda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall-Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printed Propaganda, current owner.

Series:

Religions of America.

Religions of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anglo-Israelism.

White supremacy movements.

White nationalism.

Radicalism.

Anti-Jewish propaganda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (74 monographs, 86 manuscripts, 10, 410 newspapers and periodicals).

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1929-1999.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the late 1940s, Gordon Hall began collecting American extremist literature, and with the longstanding assistance of Grace Hoag, he went on doing so until his death in 2002. His collection is a treasure trove of primary source materials on modern American extremism. The strength of the collection lies in its publications from the 1950s to the 1980s, although important sources range further. A small portion of this vast collection focuses on the Christian Identity Movement, which has a long and fascinating history. While it has never been monolithic, there are standard interpretations that reinforce its white supremacist theology. Its intellectual origins lie in an obscure eighteen-century British writer named Richard Brothers, a former British naval officer, who claimed as divine revelation his descent from King David, as well that of members of the British royal family and various prominent British subjects. His successor in the Christian Identity tradition was John Wilson, a Scottish academic who suggested that Anglo-Saxons were one of the ten lost tribes of Israel, arguing for links between the British and the tribe of Ephraim and between Zedekiah (the last king of Judah) and the British royal family. This last set of ideas came to be called British Israelism (or Anglo-Israelism). Proponents of British Israelism later included Howard B. Rand who argued the British, not the Jews, were the Chosen People, as well as Edward Hine, the American officer Charles A. L. Totten, Canadian journalist William J. Cameron, white supremacist Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith, and Wesley Swift, the founder of the modern Christian Identity Movement. With Conrad Gaard, William Potter Gale, and Bertrand Comparet, Swift developed the main theology of modern Christian Identity, incorporating concepts of racial purity and white exclusiveness into the theology of British Israelism. Swift's offering was the "two-seed doctrine," which justified racial separation by assigning the origins of whites to Eve's impregnation by Adam and Jews to her impregnation by Satan. The anti-Semitic thrust of Swift's idea would expand its coverage to all minorities (labeled "mud people") through Christian Identity's theological contention that God had commanded to whites to dominate all other non-white races.

Notes:

Date range: 1929-1999.

Source institution: Filmed from the holdings of The Hall-Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printed Propaganda, John Hay Library, Brown University.

Includes the following publications: America Speaks; The American Israelite Crusader; Appointed Time; The Battle AX N.E.W.S.; Blessing Letter; Bulletin of the Assemblies of the Called Out Ones of Yah; The Covenant Message; Covenant Report; The Covenant Voice; Destiny Digest; Destiny Editorial Letters; Destiny Magazine; Identity News Bulletin; Intelligence Newsletter; Kingdom Courier; Kingdom Digest; The Kingdom Messenger; Kingdom Spirit; Kingdom Treasure; Kinship Communication; The Messianic Messenger; National Chronicle; National Forecast Magazine; The National Message; News and Views; News Keys; Patriot Report; The Prophetic Word; The Restorer; Scriptures for America Newsletter; The Shepherd's Voice; Showers of Blessing; The Thought Provoker; Views and News; Watchman; WHY; Zions Watchman.

OCLC:

1117380743

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.