Class 200: New Studies in Religion
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Class 200: New Studies in Religion

Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali

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Class 200: New Studies in Religion

Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali

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"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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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780226648156
Topic
Théologie et religion
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface: Dialing in to Contemporary American Religion
  6. Introduction: “To Be Law-Abiders and Good Citizens”: Drew Ali’s “Divine and National Movement”
  7. 1  E pluribus unum: Drew Ali’s Democratic Theology
  8. 2  Stars in Relation to Stars: Aliite Sovereignty in Politics and Law
  9. 3  Annuit cœptis: Recognition, Authority, and Law
  10. 4  Beneath the Wings and the Shadow of the Eagle: Aliite Sovereignty and the Power of the State
  11. 5  The All-Seeing Eye: Display and Surveillance
  12. 6  The Unfinished Pyramid: Knowledge and the Legal
  13. 7  Novus ordo seclorum: Experiments in Reordering Society
  14. Conclusion: Aliite Faith in American Citizenship
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. Index