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New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam book cover

1st Edition

New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam

Edited By Dawn-Marie Gibson, Herbert Berg Copyright 2017
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam contributes to the ongoing dialogue about the nature and influence of the Nation of Islam (NOI), bringing fresh insights to areas that have previously been overlooked in the scholarship of Elijah Muhammad’s NOI, the Imam W.D. Mohammed community and Louis Farrakhan’s Resurrected NOI. Bringing together contributions that explore the formation, practices,... Read more

1 Introduction



Dawn-Marie Gibson and Herbert Berg





　



Part I: Gender, Society, and Global Connections





2 "A Superb Sales Force...The Men of Muhammad": The Nation of Islam, Black Masculinity, and Selling Muhammad Speaks in the Black Power Era



D’Weston L. Haywood





3 Ebony Muhammad’s Hurt2Healing Magazine and Contemporary Nation Women



Dawn-Marie Gibson





4 The Crescent Moon and the Carceral State: The Nation of Islam and the Legal Battle for the Right to Assemble



Seneca Vaught





5 Eat to Live: Culinary Nationalism and Black Capitalism in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam



Mary Potorti





6 Was it a Nine days Wonder? A Note on the Proselytisation Efforts of the Nation of Islam in Ghana, c. 1980s-2010



De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway and Mustapha Abdul-Hamid





7 The Nation of Islam and Japanese Imperial Ambitions



Frank Jacob





　



Part II: Propaganda and Theology





8 Propaganda in the Early NOI



Patrick D. Bowen





9 "The Secret… of Who the Devil Is": Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam, and Theological Phenomenology



Stephen C. Finley





10 Elijah Muhammad’s Christologies: The "Historical" Jesus and the Contemporary Christ



Herbert Berg





11 Black Muslims, White Jesus: Removing Racial Images of God with CRAID and W. D. Muhammad



Jamie L. Brummitt





12 Clearing the Planet: Dianetics Auditing and the Eschatology of the Nation of Islam



Jacob King





13 The Evolving Theology of the Nation of Islam



Nathan Saunders

Biography

Dawn-Marie Gibson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.



Herbert Berg is Professor of Religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and the Director of International Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.

"The well-researched essays offer the experienced scholar in the field room for discussion and incentives for further studies." - Hans Gerald Hödl, Religious Studies Review
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