American prophecy [[electronic resource] ] : race and redemption in American political culture / / George Shulman
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| Autore: |
Shulman George M
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| Titolo: |
American prophecy [[electronic resource] ] : race and redemption in American political culture / / George Shulman
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.2089/00973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Political culture - United States |
| Prophecy in literature | |
| Prophecy | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-292) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | American prophecy |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-6618-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454612103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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