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In this bold political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centres the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state.

Black Muslims --- Discrimination in criminal justice administration --- Justice, Administration of --- Black nationalism --- History. --- Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.)

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Black women's experience in the Nation of Islam has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy.

Patriarchy. --- Muslim women --- African American women --- Black Muslims --- Social conditions --- History --- Social conditions. --- Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) --- Bilalians --- Nation of Islam (Movement) --- African Americans --- Black nationalism --- Muslims --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Islamic women --- Women, Muslim --- Androcracy --- Patriarchal families --- Fathers --- Families --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Patrilineal kinship --- Religion --- NOI --- ONOI --- Original Nation of Islam --- Umat ha-Islam (Chicago, Ill.) --- אומת האיסלאם --- American Muslim Mission --- World Community of al-Islam in the West --- Muslimahs

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Presents oral histories and interviews of women who belong to Nation of IslamWith vocal public figures such as Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, and Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam often appears to be a male-centric religious movement, and over 60 years of scholarship have perpetuated that notion. Yet, women have been pivotal in the NOI's development, playing a major role in creating the public image that made it appealing and captivating.Women of the Nation draws on oral histories and interviews with approximately 100 women across several cities to provide an overview of women's historical contributions and their varied experiences of the NOI, including both its continuing community under Farrakhan and its offshoot into Sunni Islam under Imam W.D. Mohammed. The authors examine how women have interpreted and navigated the NOI's gender ideologies and practices, illuminating the experiences of African-American, Latina, and Native American women within the NOI and their changing roles within this patriarchal movement. The book argues that the Nation of Islam experience for women has been characterized by an expression of Islam sensitive to American cultural messages about race and gender, but also by gender and race ideals in the Islamic tradition. It offers the first exhaustive study of women’s experiences in both the NOI and the W.D. Mohammed community.

HISTORY / North America. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. --- Muslim women --- Women and religion --- History --- Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) --- Muslim women - United States - History --- Women and religion - United States - History

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Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim Americans have played outsized roles in US politics, sometimes as political dissidents and sometimes as political insiders. However, more than at any other moment in history, Muslim Americans now stand at the symbolic center of US politics and public life. This volume argues that the future of American democracy depends on whether Muslim Americans are able to exercise their political rights as citizens and whether they can find acceptance as social equals. Many believe that, over time, Muslim Americans will be accepted just as other religious minorities have been. Yet Curtis contends that this belief overlooks the real barrier to their full citizenship, which is political rather than cultural. The dominant form of American liberalism has prevented the political assimilation of American Muslims, even while leaders from Eisenhower to Obama have offered rhetorical support for their acceptance. Drawing on examples ranging from the political rhetoric of the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and 1960s to the symbolic use of fallen Muslim American service members in the 2016 election cycle, Curtis shows that the efforts of Muslim Americans to be regarded as full Americans have been going on for decades, yet never with full success. Curtis argues that policies, laws, and political rhetoric concerning Muslim Americans are quintessential American political questions. Debates about freedom of speech and religion, equal justice under law, and the war on terrorism have placed Muslim Americans at the center of public discourse. How Americans decide to view and make policy regarding Muslim Americans will play a large role in what kind of country the United States will become, and whether it will be a country that chooses freedom over fear and justice over prejudice.

Political culture --- Political participation --- Islam and politics --- Muslims --- Political activity --- United States. --- André Carson. --- Cold War. --- Gamal Abdel Nasser. --- Humayun Khan. --- Islam. --- Islamophobia. --- Jordan. --- Kareem Khan. --- Linda Sarsour. --- Malcolm X. --- Nation of Islam. --- activism. --- anticommunism. --- assimilation. --- capitalism. --- democracy. --- discrimination. --- dissent. --- election. --- foreign policy. --- hajj. --- immigration. --- liberalism. --- nationalism. --- politics. --- racial integration. --- racism. --- socialism. --- war on terror.

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Moving far beyond the realm of traditional "church history," Patrick Allitt here offers a vigorous and erudite survey of the broad canvas of American religion since World War II. Identifying the major trends and telling moments within major denominations and also in less formal religious movements, he asks how these religious groups have shaped, and been shaped by, some of the most important and divisive issues and events of the last half century: the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, feminism and the sexual revolution, abortion rights, the antinuclear and environmentalist movements, and many others. Allitt argues that the boundaries between religious and political discourse have become increasingly blurred in the last fifty years. Having been divided along denominational lines in the early postwar period, religious Americans had come by the 1980's to be divided along political lines instead, as they grappled with the challenges of modernity and secularism. Partly because of this politicization, and partly because of the growing influence of Asian, Latino, and other ethnic groups, the United States is anomalous among the Western industrialized nations, as church membership and religious affiliation generally increased during this period. Religion in America Since 1945 is a masterful analysis of this dynamism and diversity and an ideal starting point for any exploration of the contemporary religious scene.

United States --- Etats-Unis --- Religion --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse --- 2 <73> --- Godsdienst. Theologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- -2 <73> --- 2 <73> Godsdienst. Theologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- -United States -- Religion -- 1945-. --- North & South American Religions --- Philosophy & Religion --- United States -- Religion -- 1945-. --- 1945 --- -United States --- United States - Religion - 1945-. --- RELIGION / History. --- America --- televangelism --- mormonism --- the Nation of Islam --- New Age --- spirituality --- religious expression --- major denominations --- religious movements --- culture --- politics --- theology --- the postwar era --- modernity --- secularism --- ethnicity --- industrialization --- globalization --- church