In and out of this world : material and extraterrestrial bodies in the nation of Islam / Stephen C Finley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finley, Stephen C., author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--United States--History.

Islam.

African American Muslims--History.

African American Muslims.

Muslims--United States--History.

Muslims.

African Americans--Religion--History.

African Americans.

Black people--America--Religion--History.

Black people.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Finley, Stephen C. In and out of this world.

ISBN:

9781478023418

1478023414

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.