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Author Finley, Stephen C., author.

Title In & out of this world : material and extraterrestrial bodies in the nation of Islam / Stephen C Finley
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : illustrations
Series Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed February 7, 2023)
Subject Islam -- United States -- History
African American Muslims -- History
Muslims -- United States -- History
African Americans -- Religion -- History
Black people -- America -- Religion -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
RELIGION / Islam / General.
African American Muslims
African Americans -- Religion
Black people -- Religion
Islam
Muslims
America
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022020046
ISBN 9781478023418
1478023414