“Money, Good Homes, and Friendship”: Thrift and Salvation in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam
- UNCW Author/Contributor (non-UNCW co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Nathan Saunders (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW )
- Web Site: http://library.uncw.edu/
Abstract: A study of thrift in the Nation of Islam refines our understanding of the frugality discourse byfocusing on eschatology rather than personal piety. Thrift for Elijah Muhammad, leader of theNation from 1934 until 1975, constituted the means not to reform society but to overthrow it and usher in the end of history. Muhammad and his followers employed thrift both to promote personal spiritual health and achieve certain social aims. However, Muhammad looked forward to a time when thrift would both catalyze the apocalypse and simultaneously cease as a moral imperative.
“Money, Good Homes, and Friendship”: Thrift and Salvation in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam
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- Publication
- http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/
- Language: English
- Date: 2023
- Keywords
- Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, thrift, eschatology, diet