American Prophets (eBook)

Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice

Albert J. Raboteau (Autor)

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2016
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7440-8 (ISBN)

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Albert J. Raboteau is the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion Emeritus at Princeton University.

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A "e;powerful text"e; (Tavis Smiley) about how religion drove the fight for social justice in modern AmericaAmerican Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social activism was motivated by a deeply felt compassion for those suffering injustice.In this compelling and provocative book, acclaimed religious scholar Albert Raboteau tells the remarkable stories of Abraham Joshua Heschel, A. J. Muste, Dorothy Day, Howard Thurman, Thomas Merton, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Fannie Lou Hamer-inspired individuals who succeeded in conveying their vision to the broader public through writing, speaking, demonstrating, and organizing. Raboteau traces how their paths crossed and their lives intertwined, creating a network of committed activists who significantly changed the attitudes of several generations of Americans about contentious political issues such as war, racism, and poverty. Raboteau examines the influences that shaped their ideas and the surprising connections that linked them together. He discusses their theological and ethical positions, and describes the rhetorical and strategic methods these exemplars of modern prophecy used to persuade their fellow citizens to share their commitment to social change.A momentous scholarly achievement as well as a moving testimony to the human spirit, American Prophets represents a major contribution to the history of religion in American politics. This book is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about social justice, or who wants to know what prophetic thought and action can mean in today's world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.9.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: 16th Street Baptist Church • abolitionism • Abraham Joshua Heschel • activism • African Americans • A. J. Muste • assassination • Baptists • Bayard Rustin • Black Church • black people • Black Power • Catholic Social Teaching • Catholic Worker • Catholic Worker movement • Chaplain • Child of God • Christian • Christianity • Christian Pacifism • Civil disobedience • Clergy • Consumerism • Coretta Scott King • courtesy • Criticism • Daniel Berrigan • desegregation • Doctrine • Dorothy Day • Fannie Lou Hamer • Friendship House • God • Go Down Moses • hatred • Henry David Thoreau • His Family • Howard Thurman • Image of God • Invisible Man • James Chaney • James Reeb • John Howard Griffin • Kenosis • Lecture • Liberation Struggle • Lyndon B. Johnson • Mahatma Gandhi • Maimonides • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Mass meeting • mass society • Meister Eckhart • michael schwerner • Militarism • Monasticism • Mourning • Mrs. • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • newspaper • Nonviolence • On Religion • Oppression • Pacifism • Pathos • Peter Maurin • Philosophy • piety • police dog • Politics • Princeton University Press • Rabbi • Racism • Ralph Ellison • Random House • Reinhold Niebuhr • Religion • religious experience • Renunciation • rhetoric • Righteousness • seminary • separatism • Sheyann Webb • Slavery • Social Gospel • social issue • Southern Christian Leadership Conference • Spirituality • Stephen Spender • Stokely Carmichael • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • Susannah Heschel • Theology • Vocation • voter registration • We shall overcome • white supremacy • wickedness • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7440-8 / 1400874408
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7440-8 / 9781400874408