Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies
|
Not currently available
American Prophecy - Race and Redemption in American Political Culture (Paperback)
Loot Price: R599
Discovery Miles 5 990
You Save: R82
(12%)
|
|
American Prophecy - Race and Redemption in American Political Culture (Paperback)
(sign in to rate)
List price R681
Loot Price R599
Discovery Miles 5 990
You Save R82 (12%)
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
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 with dogmatism and domination, American Prophecy
finds connections between prophetic language and democratic
politics, particularly racial politics. Exploring how American
critics of white supremacy have repeatedly reworked biblical
prophecy, Shulman demonstrates how these writers and thinkers have
transformed prophecy into a political language and given redemption
a political meaning. To examine how antiracism is linked to
prophecy as a vernacular idiom is to rethink political theology,
recast democratic theory, and reassess the bearing of religion on
American political culture. Still, prophetic language is not always
liberatory, and American Prophecy maintains a critical dispassion
about a rhetoric that is both prevalent and problematic.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.