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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 such as Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Warith Deen Mohammad,
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.
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 such as Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Warith Deen Mohammad,
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.
This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out
the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour,
American identity and perceived black racial progress. Contributors
to the volume examine the sociological construct of the "white
labourer", whose concerns and beliefs can be understood as
religious in foundation, and uncover that white religious fervor
correlates to notions of perceived white loss and perceived black
progress. In discussions ranging from the Constitution to the
Charlottesville riots to the evangelical community's uncritical
support for Trump, the authors of this collection argue that it is
not economics but religion and race that stand as the primary
motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist
sentiment in the United States.
This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out
the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour,
American identity and perceived black racial progress. Contributors
to the volume examine the sociological construct of the "white
labourer", whose concerns and beliefs can be understood as
religious in foundation, and uncover that white religious fervor
correlates to notions of perceived white loss and perceived black
progress. In discussions ranging from the Constitution to the
Charlottesville riots to the evangelical community's uncritical
support for Trump, the authors of this collection argue that it is
not economics but religion and race that stand as the primary
motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist
sentiment in the United States.
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