New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam

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