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Prophetic Politics - Christian Social Movements and American Democracy (Paperback, New edition)
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Prophetic Politics - Christian Social Movements and American Democracy (Paperback, New edition)
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"In an era of military conflict and economic hardship, religious
and political leaders adamantly speak in the language of crisis.
Whether one attributes this public religious fervor to a response
to the attacks of September 11, 2001, millennial hopes and fears, a
sense of moral decay (generally based on either growing economic
inequality or the 'breakdown of the American family'), or a sign of
the normal progression of the stages of history, the discourse of
religious revival is increasingly prominent. And, as is amply
evident in the United States and throughout the world, devout
declarations of religious belief in the public sphere can bring
intractable passions to politics." from Chapter 1What are the
relationships among religion, politics, and narratives? What makes
prophetic political narratives congenial or hostile to democratic
political life? David S. Gutterman explores the prophetic politics
of four twentieth- and twenty-first-century American Christian
social movements: the Reverend Billy Sunday and his vision of
"muscular Christianity"; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil
Rights movement; the conservative Christian male organization
Promise Keepers; and the progressive antipoverty organization Call
to Renewal. Gutterman develops a theory based on the work of Hannah
Arendt and others and employs this framework to analyze expressions
of the prophetic impulse in the political narrative of the United
States. In the process, he examines timely issues about the tense
and intricate relationship between religion and politics. Even
prior to George W. Bush's faith-based initiative, debates about
abortion, family values, welfare reform, and environmental
degradation were informed by religious language and ideas. In an
interdisciplinary and accessible manner, Gutterman translates the
narratives employed by American Christian social movements to
define both the crises in the land and the path to resolving these
crises. The book also explores the engagement of these prophetic
social movements in contentious political issues concerned with
sex, gender, sexuality, race, and class, as well as broader
questions of American identity."
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