The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali - Brossura

Dew, Spencer

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ISBN 10: 022664801X ISBN 13: 9780226648019

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2019

Riassunto

“Citizenship is salvation,” preached Noble Drew Ali, leader of the Moorish Science Temple of America in the early twentieth century. Ali’s message was an aspirational call for black Americans to undertake a struggle for recognition from the state, one that would both ensure protection for all Americans through rights guaranteed by the law and correct the unjust implementation of law that prevailed in the racially segregated United States. Ali and his followers took on this mission of citizenship as a religious calling, working to carve out a place for themselves in American democracy and to bring about a society that lived up to what they considered the sacred purpose of the law.

In The Aliites, Spencer Dew traces the history and impact of Ali’s radical fusion of law and faith. Dew uncovers the influence of Ali’s teachings, including the many movements they inspired. As Dew shows, Ali’s teachings demonstrate an implicit yet critical component of the American approach to law: that it should express our highest ideals for society, even if it is rarely perfect in practice. Examining this robustly creative yet largely overlooked lineage of African American religious thought, Dew provides a window onto religion, race, citizenship, and law in America.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Spencer Dew is Religion Teaching Fellow at Wittenberg University and affiliated faculty at The Ohio State University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 022664801X
• ISBN 13: 9780226648019
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 250
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile