ISBN:
0816630755
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0816630747
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9780816630752
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9780816630745
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 315 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version American Prophecy : Race and Redemption in American Political Culture
DDC:
306.2089/00973
Keywords:
Bible Prophecies
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Prophecy
;
Prophecy in literature
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Political culture
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Bible ; O.T ; Prophecies
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Political culture ; United States
;
Prophecy in literature
;
Prophecy
;
United States ; Race relations
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Electronic books
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United States Race relations
Abstract:
Prophecy is the fundamental idiom of American politics-a biblical rhetoric about redeeming the crimes, suffering, and promise of a special people. Yet American prophecy and its great practitioners-from Frederick Douglass and Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison-are rarely addressed, let alone analyzed, by political theorists. This paradox is at the heart of American Prophecy, a work in which George Shulman unpacks and critiques the political meaning of American prophetic rhetoric. In the face of religious fundamentalisms that associate prophecy and redemption w
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introducing Jeremiah's Legacy: Placing Prophecy in American Politics and Political Theory; 2 Thoreau, the Reluctant Prophet: Moral Witness and Poetic Vision in Politics; Interlude: From Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin: Race and Prophecy; 3 Martin Luther King Jr.'s Theistic Prophecy: Love, Sacrifice, and Democratic Politics; 4 James Baldwin and the Racial State of Exception: Secularizing Prophecy?; 5 Toni Morrison and Prophecy: "This Is Not a Story to Pass On"; Conclusion: Prophecy as Vernacular Political Theology; Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-292) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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