Susan Palmer

The Nuwaubian Nation (eBook, ePUB)

Black Spirituality and State Control

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting fresh and important insights into racialist spirituality and the social control of unconventional religions in America, The Nuwaubian Nation follows the extraordinary career of Dwight York, who in his teens started out in a New York street gang, but converted to Islam in prison. Emerging as a Black messiah, York proceeded to break the Paleman's "spell of Kingu" and to guide his people through a series of racial/religious identities that demanded dramatic changes in costume, gender roles and lifestyle. Referring to theories in the sociology of deviance and media studies, the author tracks the escalating hostilities against the group that climaxed in a Waco-style FBI raid on the Nuwaubian "compound" in 2002.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351884716
• Artikelnr.: 49355468

Autorenporträt

Susan Palmer is the author of eight books on NRMs, the best known being Moon Sisters, Krishna Mother, Rajneesh Lovers: Women's Roles in New Religions (1994) and Aliens Adored: Rael's UFO Religion (2004). She teaches at Dawson College and Concordia University in their Religious Studies departments.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface: 'overstanding' the Nuwaubians
'Don't believe me, check it out for yourself!'
Holy madness, crazy wisdom
The Ansaaru Allah community
Tama Re and the FBI raid on a 'sovereign nation'
Dr York's trials
Regressing into the millennium
Black Messiahs in America: religious leaders or racketeers?
Bibliography
Index.