New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam

"The well-researched essays offer the experienced scholar in the field room for discussion and incentives for further studies." - Hans Gerald Hdl, Religious Studies Review

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 Introduction Dawn-Marie Gibson and Herbert Berg Part I: Gender, Society, and Global Connections 2 "A Superb Sales Force...The Men of Muhammad": The Nation of Islam, Black Masculinity, and Selling Muhammad Speaks in the Black Power Era DWeston L. Haywood 3 Ebony Muhammads Hurt2Healing Magazine and Contemporary Nation Women Dawn-Marie Gibson 4 The Crescent Moon and the Carceral State: The Nation of Islam and the Legal Battle for the Right to Assemble Seneca Vaught 5 Eat to Live: Culinary Nationalism and Black Capitalism in Elijah Muhammads Nation of Islam Mary Potorti 6 Was it a Nine days Wonder? A Note on the Proselytisation Efforts of the Nation of Islam in Ghana, c. 1980s-2010 De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway and Mustapha Abdul-Hamid 7 The Nation of Islam and Japanese Imperial Ambitions Frank Jacob Part II: Propaganda and Theology 8 Propaganda in the Early NOI Patrick D. Bowen 9 "The Secret of Who the Devil Is": Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam, and Theological Phenomenology Stephen C. Finley 10 Elijah Muhammads Christologies: The "Historical" Jesus and the Contemporary Christ Herbert Berg 11 Black Muslims, White Jesus: Removing Racial Images of God with CRAID and W. D. Muhammad Jamie L. Brummitt 12 Clearing the Planet: Dianetics Auditing and the Eschatology of the Nation of Islam Jacob King 13 The Evolving Theology of the Nation of Islam Nathan Saunders