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In & out of this world : material and extraterrestrial bodies in the nation of Islam
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Title
In & out of this world : material and extraterrestrial bodies in the nation of Islam / Stephen C Finley.
ISBN
9781478023418
1478023414
9781478016137
1478016132
9781478018773
1478018771
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
"With In and Out of This World Stephen C. Finley examines the religious practices and discourses that have shaped the Nation of Islam (NOI) in America. Drawing on the speeches and writing of figures including Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Warith Deen Muhammad, and Louis Farrakhan, Finley shows that the NOI and its leaders used multiple religious symbols, rituals, and mythologies meant to recast the meaning of the cosmos and create new transcendent and immanent black bodies whose meaning cannot be reduced to products of racism. Whether examining how the myth of Yakub helped Elijah Muhammad explain the violence directed at black bodies, how Malcolm X made black bodies in the NOI publicly visible, or the ways Farrakhan's discourses on his experiences with the Mother Wheel UFO organize his interpretation of black bodies, Finley demonstrates that the NOI intended to retrieve, reclaim, and reform black bodies in a context of antiblack violence."-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2022. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Finley, Stephen C. In and out of this world. Durham : Duke University Press, 2022
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 30, 2024
Series
Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Black Bodies In- and Out-of-Place: Re-reading the Nation of Islam through a Theory of the Body
Elijah Muhammad, the Myth of Yakub, and the Critique of "Whitenized" Black Bodies
Elijah Muhammad, Transcendent Blackness, and the Construction of Ideal Black Bodies
Malcolm X and the Politics of Resistance: Visible Bodies, Language, and the Implied Critique of Elijah Muhammad
Warith Deen Mohammed and the Nation of Islam: Race and Black Bodies in "Islamic" Form
Mothership Connections: Louis Farrakhan as the Culmination of Muslim Ideals in the Nation of Islam
(Re)forming Black Bodies, 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.
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