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American prophecy [[electronic resource] ] : race and redemption in American political culture / / George Shulman



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Autore: Shulman George M Visualizza persona
Titolo: American prophecy [[electronic resource] ] : race and redemption in American political culture / / George Shulman Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-6618-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910454612103321
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