American prophecy :race and redemption in American political culture /George Shulman.
Description
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.
xxi, 315 p. ;24 cm.
Book Details
Author
Shulman, George M.
Place Published
City
Minneapolis
Date Published
circa 2008
Publication Subjects
Bible.--Old Testament--Prophecies.
Political culture--United States.
Prophecy.
Prophecy in literature.