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English
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Holy Races : Race in the Formation of Mormonism and the Nation of Islam
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Charlottesville, Virginia
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The University of Virginia
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"This thesis seeks to demonstrate that Mormonism and the Nation of Islam both incorporated contemporary definitions of race into their theology and used such definitions to police the boundaries of their religious identity. These boundaries became the de facto gate through which its members were required to pass to gain access to each respective movement’s definition of salvation. Both religions also provide insight into the contexts and processes by which American religions both included and excluded racial groups within their religious frameworks. Early Mormons gave all their worldly possessions to gather and evangelized to bring others to their fellowship, but ultimately excluded others based on their non-Israelite identity. The Nation of Islam sought to unite the black population into a religious body, but later separated the majority of American blacks from its definition of what constituted blackness. Mormonism’s racial theology excluded Africans from the eternal Nucleus of Heaven until after Jesus’ Second Coming until a revelation reversed Brigham Young’s pronouncements in 1978. The Nation of Islam addressed a monolithic black population that Muhammad eventually split into two smaller populations of the saved and damned. Both religions incorporated prevailing race definitions to their preferred race to justify endowments of privilege and favor by God or Allah." [Author]
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