Show and Prove: Five Percenters and the Study of African American Esotericism

In: Esotericism in African American Religious Experience
Author:
Biko Mandela Gray
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177–197
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004283428_013

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Series:  Aries Book Series, Volume: 19
Cover Esotericism in African American Religious Experience
E-Book ISBN:
9789004283428
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2015
Preliminary Material
Introduction: Africana Esoteric Studies: Mapping a New Endeavor
Esoteric Writing of Vodou: Grimoires, Sigils, and the Houngan’s Notebook
Paschal Beverly Randolph in the African American Community
The Self Divine: Know Ye Not that Ye are Gods?
Working Roots and Conjuring Traditions: Relocating Black ‘Cults and Sects’ in African-American Religious History
Spirit is Universal: Development of Black Spiritualist Churches
The Harlem Renaissance as Esotericism: Black Oragean Modernism
Mathematical Theology: Numerology in the Religious Thought of Tynnetta Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan
On the Knowledge of Self and Others: Secrecy, Concealment and Revelation in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam (1934–1975)
Post-Imperial Appropriation of Text, Tradition, and Ritual in the Pseudonymous Writings of Henri Gamache
Mystery Matters: Embodiment and African American Mystics
The “Nu” Nation: An Analysis of Malachi Z. York’s Nuwaubians
Sacred Not Secret: Esoteric Knowledge in the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors
Astro-Black Mythology: The Poetry of Sun Ra
Conjurational Contraptions: Techno-Hermeneutics, Mechanical Wizardry, and the Material Culture of African American Folk Magic
Portraying Portraits: The Intersectionality of Self, Art, and the Lacanian Gaze in the Nahziryah Monastic Community
Those Mysteries, Our Mysteries: Ishmael Reed and the Construction of a Black Esoteric Tradition
Rockin’ for a Risen Savior: Bakongo and Christian Iconicity in the Louisiana Easter Rock Ritual
Pole Dancing for Jesus: Negotiating Movement and Gender in Men’s Musical Praise
Wonder Working Power: Reclaiming Mystical and Cosmological Aspects of Africana Spiritual Practices
Conclusion: The Continuing Quest to Map Secrecy, Concealment, and Revelatory Experiences in Africana Esoteric Discourse: “There Is a Mystery…”
Afterword
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