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- Gardell, Mattias
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Behold, I Make All Things New
- 1996
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Ingår i: Questioning the Secular State. - : C Hurst, London & New York.
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- Gardell, Mattias, 1959-
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Countdown to Armageddon : minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam in the latter days
- 1995
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Being both black and Islamic, the main subject of this study represents a combined opposition to "Americanity", i.e., the civil religion of the United States. The rise of the Nation of Islam (NOI) during the Great Depression is studied in the context of African American social history, the legacy of black nationalism and the hidden Islamic presence in North America. The efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to neutralize the NOI are exposed by utilizing previously not released FBI files. This section also includes a discussion of the murder of Malcolm X, one of the most renowned spokespersons for the NOI. The main section of this thesis deals with the NOI after the death of Elijah Muhammad, the Last Messenger of God, in 1975. Among the contenders for the position as his Successor, Louis Farrakhan emerged as the most distinguished voice for the radical black Islamic community. Farrakhan is frequently portrayed as a demagogue, a bigot, an inverted racist and a leading anti-Semite. Despite the NOI 1 s much publicized positions on a wide range of important issues, qualitative research is rare. Based on field research, taped interviews and lectures, this study aims to present a balanced account of the NOI by piercing through the mist of media distortions. The religious ideology of the NOI is presented in detail, including its more esoteric aspects. NOI relations to and conflicts with mainstream Islam, the black Church, the Jewish community and white far-right nationalism are also examined. The relationship between black Islam and the urban culture of black American youth, in particular the Hip Hop movement and black gangs, is taken up. Despite being extremely apocalyptic in orientation, the NOI offers practical solutions to a number of severe problems presently faced by the African American community. In the final analysis, the author suggests that the NOI can be understood as a project of auto-civilizing with a strategy akin to that of the European labor movement of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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- Gardell, Mattias
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Den gröna världsordningen: Om islam, mediamuslimer och globaliseringsprocessen
- 1996
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Ingår i: Religionshistorisk Årsskrift. ; 5, s. 9-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Artikeln avser att inleda en religionsvetenskaplig diskussion om globaliseringsprocessen och dess konsekvenser för de organiserade religiösa idésyste men. Det är inte längre möjligt att studera nutida religioner utan hänvisning till den globala kontext de
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- Gardell, Mattias, 1959-
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In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
- 1996
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the Name of Elijah Muhammad tells the story of the Nation of Islam—its rise in northern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression through its decline following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975 to its rejuvenation under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan. Mattias Gardell sets this story within the context of African American social history, the legacy of black nationalism, and the long but hidden Islamic presence in North America. He presents with insight and balance a detailed view of one of the most controversial yet least explored organizations in the United States—and its current leader. Beginning with Master Farad Muhammad, believed to be God in Person, Gardell examines the origins of the Nation. His research on the period of Elijah Muhammad’s long leadership draws on previously unreleased FBI files that reveal a clear picture of the bureau’s attempts to neutralize the Nation of Islam. In addition, they shed new light on the circumstances surrounding the murder of Malcolm X. With the main part of the book focused on the fortunes of the Nation after Elijah Muhammad’s death, Gardell then turns to the figure of Minister Farrakhan. From his emergence as the dominant voice of the radical black Islamic community to his leadership of the Million Man March, Farrakhan has often been portrayed as a demagogue, bigot, racist, and anti-Semite. Gardell balances the media’s view of the Nation and Farrakhan with the Nation’s own views and with the perspectives of the black community in which the organization actively works. His investigation, based on field research, taped lectures, and interviews, leads to the fullest account yet of the Nation of Islam’s ideology and theology, and its complicated relations with mainstream Islam, the black church, the Jewish community, extremist white nationalists, and the urban culture of black American youth, particularly the hip-hop movement and gangs.
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- Gardell, Mattias
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Malcolm X
- 1995
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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