New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam

Dawn-Marie Gibson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.Herbert Berg is Professor of Religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and the Director of International Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.

• 1 IntroductionDawn-Marie Gibson and Herbert BergPart I: Gender, Society, and Global Connections2 "A Superb Sales Force...The Men of Muhammad": The Nation of Islam, Black Masculinity, and Selling Muhammad Speaks in the Black Power EraD’Weston L. Haywood3 Ebony Muhammad’s Hurt2Healing Magazine and Contemporary Nation Women Dawn-Marie Gibson4 The Crescent Moon and the Carceral State: The Nation of Islam and the Legal Battle for the Right to AssembleSeneca Vaught5 Eat to Live: Culinary Nationalism and Black Capitalism in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of IslamMary Potorti6 Was it a Nine days Wonder? A Note on the Proselytisation Efforts of the Nation of Islam in Ghana, c. 1980s-2010De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway and Mustapha Abdul-Hamid7 The Nation of Islam and Japanese Imperial AmbitionsFrank JacobPart II: Propaganda and Theology8 Propaganda in the Early NOIPatrick D. Bowen9 "The Secret… of Who the Devil Is": Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam, and Theological Phenomenology Stephen C. Finley10 Elijah Muhammad’s Christologies: The "Historical" Jesus and the Contemporary ChristHerbert Berg11 Black Muslims, White Jesus: Removing Racial Images of God with CRAID and W. D. MuhammadJamie L. Brummitt12 Clearing the Planet: Dianetics Auditing and the Eschatology of the Nation of IslamJacob King13 The Evolving Theology of the Nation of IslamNathan Saunders

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