Black Muslim religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975 /
"Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group. But the movement was also a religious one. Edward E. Curtis IV offers the first comprehensive examination of the rituals, ethics,...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2006]
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| Series: | UNC Press law publications.
Religion and the law. Civil rights and social justice. |
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| Online Access: | HeinOnline UNC Press Law Publications HeinOnline Religion and the Law HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice |
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| Summary: | "Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group. But the movement was also a religious one. Edward E. Curtis IV offers the first comprehensive examination of the rituals, ethics, theologies, and religious narratives of the Nation of Islam, showing how the movement combined elements of Afro-Eurasian Islamic traditions with African American traditions to create a new form of Islamic faith."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-227) and index. |