Malcolm X And Religion Essay

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I believe those religious practices such as the ones practiced in Burning man and the ones spoken about my Malcolm X allow individuals and communities to form sites of political and social resistance against a status quo because it gives the groups of people the freedom to express their individualism in any way they choose. Throughout this essay I will explain to you why both these religious practices allow its followers to feel safe and protected to express their feelings throughout the channels that are given to them. While one is a festival and one is an actual religion, they both have had an every growing number of followers that it has allowed those followers to go not only against social norms but develop their own.

The reasons why Malcolm X had not only such a great following but he had a following of people whom were of many different races. The reason …show more content…
With this festival starting as only a few people and turning into something that has about a 60,000 person following it allows people to feel not only freedom but also the freedom to express them in a way that others are so there is no one person that is feeling “left out.” “This culture is manifested around the globe through art, communal effort, and innumerable individual acts of self-expression. (Burning man website)” everything that has gone on with this group in terms of their practices has gone through change because of the ever changing social norms but the big idea with them is it’s a group effort. “We eventually agreed to print a statement on our ticket disallowing guns, but even this had to be negotiated. (Harvey, 5)” This shows that a the start they wanted to allow people to bring anything that made them feel comfortable, but with the changing laws and social norms rules had to be put in place and

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