Science and Technology in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam

Bibliographic Data

ID20199099
AuthorsEdward E Curtis (0009-0008-4142-0120, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume20
Issue1
Pages5-31
Publication date2016-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1092-6690 • E-ISSN: 1541-8480
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/novo.2016.20.1.5
OpenAlexW2522219469
LanguageEN
References cited12

This article explores the centrality of science and technology to religious thought and practice in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam from the 1950s through the 1970s. Tracing the dynamic meanings of scientific knowledge in the context of the postwar United States, the article’s central argument is that like other UFO and extraterrestrial religions, the Nation of Islam emphasized scientific, material, and empirical over spiritual and supernatural understandings of religion. It also suggests how members of this new religious movement studied and attempted to live according to the scientific and mathematical principles derived from their prophet’s cosmological, ontological, and eschatological teachings on the nature of God, the origins and destiny of the black race, and the beginning and end of white supremacy

Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis) · Astrology · Centrality · Context (archaeology) · Destiny (ISS module) · Epistemology · Islam · Sociology · Theology · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

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