James L. Conyers

Africana Faith

A Religious History of the African American Crusade in Islam

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Produktbeschreibung

This primer aspires to make a concentric analysis of the function and capacity of spirituality and religiosity, within the African American Muslim movement. This collection of essays places emphasis on the role and views of the missionary and voluntary spread of Islam among African Americans in the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1009g
• ISBN-13: 9780761868729
• ISBN-10: 0761868720
• Artikelnr.: 47162510

Autorenporträt

James L. Conyers, Jr., is a winner of the Cheikh Anta Diop Ankh Award for Distinguished Research in the Discipline of African American Studies. He is the director of the African American Studies Program and university professor of African American Studies at the University of Houston.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii Acknowledgments ix PART I: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 1 1 Notes in
Negro American Influences on the Emergence of African Nationalism (1960)
George Shepperson 3 2 Islam as a Factor in West African Culture (1911)
George W. Ellis 23 3 Muslims in Early America (1994) Michael A. Gomez 47
PART II: SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION 91 4 The Voodoo Cult among Negro Migrants in
Detroit (1938) Erdmann Doane Beyon 93 5 Elijah in the Wilderness (1960) Nat
Hentoff 107 6 Registerested with Allah (1997) Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy
117 7 Moorish Science Temple of America (1957) Arthur H. Fauset 141 8 Negro
Nationalism and the Black Muslims (1962) Claude Lightfoot 153 PART III:
POLITICS OF RELIGION 173 9 The Black Muslims and the Negro American's Quest
for Communion: A Case Study in the Genesis of Negro Protest Movements
(1969) Howard Kaplan 175 10 The Black Muslim Movement and the American
Constitutional System (1983) Oliver Jones Jr. 191 11 Black Muslims and the
Police (1965) Lee P. Brown 211 PART IV: ECONOMICS OF RELIGION 227 12 The
Protestant Ethic among the Black Muslims (1966) Lawrence L. Tyler 229 13
Christian Elements in Negro American Muslim Religious Beliefs (1964) Abbie
Whyte 241 14 Watchtower Influences on Black Muslim Eschatology: An
Exploratory Story (1970) William Maesen 251 15 The Moslem Influence Among
American Negroes (1962) John F. Hatchett 259 PART V: PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION
267 16 The Muslim Mission in the Context of American Social History (1983)
C. Eric Lincoln 269 17 African American Muslim Women (1991) Beverly Thomas
(Aminah) McCloud 287 18 What Shall We Call Him? Islam and African American
Identity (1997) Richard Brent Turner 301 19 Family Stability Among
African-American Muslims (1991) Na'im Akbar 335 20 Aspects of Black Muslim
Theology (1981) Zafar Ishaq Ansari 353 PART VI: INTERDISCIPLINARY
PERSPECTIVES 389 21 W.D. Muhammad: The Making of a "Black Muslim" Leader
(1933-1961) (1985) Zafar Ishaq Ansari 391 22 From Black Muslim to Bilalian:
The Evolution of a Movement (1982) Lawrence H. Mamiya 409 23 The Black
Muslims: From Revolution to Institution (1964) Michael Parenti 433 24 The
Black Muslims in America: A Reinterpretation (1963) W. Haywood Burns 451 25
Islam in the United States of America: A Review of the Sources (1981)
Sulayman S. Nyang Index About the Editor and Contributors