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American prophecy : race and redemption in American political culture /

"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 Morr...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Shulman, George M.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introducing Jeremiah's legacy : placing prophecy in American politics and political theory
  • 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
  • Martin Luther King Jr.'s theistic prophecy : love, sacrifice, and democratic politics
  • James Baldwin and the racial state of exception : secularizing prophecy?
  • Toni Morrison and prophecy : "this is not a story to pass on"
  • Conclusion : prophecy as vernacular political theology.