In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam
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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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham
Duke University Press
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Ser.
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| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781478018773 |
| Summary: | 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. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Black Bodies In-and Out-of-Place: Rereading the Nation of Islam through a Theory of the Body -- 1. Elijah Muhammad, the Myth of Yakub, and the Critique of "Whitenized" Black Embodiment -- 2. Elijah Muhammad, Transcendent Blackness, and the Construction of Ideal Black Bodies -- 3. Malcolm X and the Politics of Resistance: Visible Bodies, Language, and the Implied Critique of Elijah Muhammad -- 4. Warith Deen Mohammed and the Nation of Islam: Race and Black Embodiment in "Islamic" Form -- 5. Mothership Connections: Louis Farrakhan as the Culmination of Muslim Ideals in the Nation of Islam -- Conclusion: (Re)forming Black Embodiment, White Supremacy, and the Nation of Islam's Class(ist) Response -- Wheels, Wombs, and Women: An Epilogue -- The "Louis Farrakhan" That the Public Does Not Know, or Doesn't Want to Know?: An Afterword -- Farrakhan's Swan Song?: A Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y. |
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| ISBN: | 1478023414 |