Stephen C. Finley

In and Out of This World

Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam

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Produktbeschreibung

Stephen C. Finley offers a new look at the religious practices and discourses of the Nation of Islam, showing how the group and its leaders used multiple religious and esoteric symbols to locate black bodies as sites of religious meaning.

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Produktdetails

• Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018773
• ISBN-10: 1478018771
• Artikelnr.: 63516205

Autorenporträt

Stephen C. Finley is Inaugural Chair, Department of African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University, and coeditor of The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress and Esotericism in African American Religious Experience.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Black Bodies In- and Out-of-Place: Rereading the Nation of
Islam through a Theory of the Body  1
1. Elijah Muhammad, the Myth of Yakub, and the Critique of “Whitenized”
Black Embodiment  15
2. Elijah Muhammad, Transcendent Blackness, and the Construction of Ideal
Black Bodies  46
3. Malcolm X and the Politics of Resistance: Visible Bodies, Language, and
the Implied Critique of Elijah Muhammad  74
4. Warith Deen Mohammed and the Nation of Islam: Race and Black Embodiment
in “Islamic” Form  100
5. Mothership Connections: Louis Farrakhan as the Culmination of Muslim
Ideals in the Nation of Islam  131
Conclusion. (Re)forming Black Embodiment, White Supremacy, and the Nation
of Islam's Class(ist) Response  158
Wheels, Wombs, and Women: An Epilogue  174
The “Louis Farrakhan” That the Public Does Not Know, or Doesn’t Want to
Know?: An Afterword  189
Farrakhan’s Swan Song? A Postscript  198
Notes  201
Bibliography  235
Index  245