Table of Contents

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

D’Weston L. Haywood

3 Ebony Muhammad’s 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 Muhammad’s 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 Muhammad’s 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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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