American Prophecy : Race and Redemption in American Political Culture /

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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--ar...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Shulman, George M.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Bible. > Old Testament.
Bible. > Old Testament > Prophecies.
Race relations.
Prophecy.
Political culture.
Prophecy in literature.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Prophetie dans la litterature.
Prophetie.
Political culture > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States > Race relations.
Prophecies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 matérielle:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9780816666188

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