Gibson / Berg New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-29584-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion

New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam contributes to the ongoing dialogue about the nature and influence of the Nation of Islam, 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, and influence of the NOI, this volume problematizes the history of the NOI, its theology, and relationships between the NOI and other religious movements. Contributors offer diverse perspectives on the NOI, making connections between the ideology of the NOI and gender, dietary restrictions and foodways, the internationalization of the movement, and the civil rights movement. This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current scholarship on the Nation of Islam, and will be relevant to scholars of American religion and history, Islamic studies, and African American Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson, Dawn-Marie

Berg, Herbert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Dawn-Marie Gibson and Herbert Berg Part I: Gender and the Nation of Islam 1. ‘Walk the Way of Free Men’: Muhammad Speaks, the Black Freedom Struggle, and the Nation of Islam’s Vision of Black Masculinity, 1960-1974 D’Weston Haywood 2. Ebony Muhammad’s Hurt2Healing Magazine and Contemporary Nation Women Dawn-Marie Gibson 3. The Crescent Moon and the Carceral State: The Nation of Islam and the Legal Battle for the Right to Assemble Seneca Vaught Part II: Diet and the NOI 4. "To Eat To Live": The Nation of Islam, Black Liberation, and the Politics of Food Mary Potorti 5. The Farm Program Eleanor Finnegan Part III: The Nation of Islam beyond the USA 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 Hamid 7. Japanese Ambitions and the Nation of Islam Frank Jacob Part IV: Theologies of Elijah Muhammad and Imam Mohammed 8. Black Muslims, White Jesus: Destroying Racial Images of God with CRAID and Imam W. D. Muhammad Jamie L. Brummitt 9. Elijah Muhammad’s Christologies: The "Historical" Jesus and the Contemporary Jesus Herbert Berg 10. Propaganda in the Early NOI Patrick D. Bowen Part V: Louis Farrakhan 11. Clearing the Planet: The Adoption of Scientology by Louis Farrakhan, and its Significance for the Eschatology of the Nation of Islam Jacob King 12. Revelatory Journey: (Re)claiming Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam as a Religion Stephen C. Finley and Justine M. Bakker 13. The Evolution of the NOI’s Theology Nathan Saunders

Über Autor(innen)

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

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