A Material Response to Spiritual Crisis: Alexander Ross's Anglo-Israelist Monument of 1898-1899
This article analyzes the cemetery monument that Alexander Ross caused to be erected at a moment of spiritual crisis when he realized that Jesus was not going to return in 1898. It reveals the complexity of a Protestant, Anglo-Israelist, premillenarian adventist's intersecting religious, ethnic...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2019]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 87, Issue: 1, Pages: 225-259 |
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Ross, Alexander 1838-1915
/ Adventists
/ Anglo-Israel theory
/ Spirituality
/ Crisis
/ Denver, Colo.
/ Tomb
/ History 1898-1899
/ Ross, Alexander 1838-1915, The time appointed
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AX Inter-religious relations BH Judaism |
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| Summary: | This article analyzes the cemetery monument that Alexander Ross caused to be erected at a moment of spiritual crisis when he realized that Jesus was not going to return in 1898. It reveals the complexity of a Protestant, Anglo-Israelist, premillenarian adventist's intersecting religious, ethnic, racial, gender, and social identities at one moment in time as they became embodied in an object intended to outlast the physical body. Ross turned to a common rite of death and mourning - the erection of a gravestone - to cope with his spiritual loss. I argue that his excessive fear of death, literal hermeneutic, grief at the physical loss of family members, and position of social power contributed to the decision to meet a crisis of faith with an object of material Christianity, every aspect of which made his spiritual hopes and dreams solidly visible. Ross's reaction to failed prophecy places materiality at the core of his adventism. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfy024 |