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200 10$aAmerican prophecy$b[electronic resource] $erace and redemption in American political culture /$fGeorge Shulman
210   $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (340 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-292) and index.
327   $tIntroducing Jeremiah's legacy : placing prophecy in American politics and political theory --$tThoreau, the reluctant prophet : moral witness and poetic vision in politics --$tInterlude : from Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin : race and prophecy --$tMartin Luther King Jr.'s theistic prophecy : love, sacrifice, and democratic politics --$tJames Baldwin and the racial state of exception : secularizing prophecy? --$tToni Morrison and prophecy : "this is not a story to pass on" --$tConclusion : prophecy as vernacular political theology.
330   $aProphecy 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
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