This is the landmark publication of the early writings of this
pioneering voice for social justice. The ""Papers of Howard
Washington Thurman"" is a four-volume, chronologically arranged
documentary edition spanning the long and productive career of the
Reverend Howard Thurman, one of the most significant leaders in the
history of intellectual and religious life in the
mid-twentieth-century United States. The first to lead a delegation
of African Americans to meet personally with Mahatma Gandhi, in
1936, Thurman later became one of the principal architects of the
modern, nonviolent civil rights movement and a key mentor to Martin
Luther King, Jr. In 1953 ""Life"" magazine named Thurman as one of
the twelve greatest preachers of the century. The four volumes of
this collection, culled from more than 58,000 documents from public
and private sources, will feature more than 850 selections of
Thurman's sermons, letters, essays, and other writings - many
published here for the first time. Each volume will open with an
editorial statement, followed by an introductory essay to guide the
reader through the dominant themes in Thurman's thought: his
understanding of spirituality and social transformations, his
creative ecclesiology, and his conception of civic character and
the national democratic experiment. Precise annotations to each
document illumine Thurman's personal, professional, and
intellectual development and place the texts into their historical
context. The volumes are further augmented with detailed
chronologies and representative illustrations. Volume I (June 1918
- March 1936) documents Thurman's early years in his native
Daytona, Florida, his formal education and his leadership in the
student movement, and his years at Howard University as a professor
of philosophy and religion and dean of Rankin Chapel as well as his
historic trip to India and meeting with Mahatma Gandhi in 1936. The
texts, images, and editorial commentary presented here reveal the
early development of the vision that drove Thurman's career as an
educator, theologian, minister, and advocate for social justice and
informed the twenty-three books that he began publishing in the
mid-1940s. This volume provides rich insights into Thurman's
thinking and spiritual growth and offers a window onto the
landscape of the defining issues, events, movements, institutions,
and individuals that shaped his formative years. The texts
presented here make for compelling reading, as Thurman's dialogue
with the world of public theology is the story of a nation that was
taking stock of its political and religious heritage. The historic
publication of his collected papers will make an invaluable
contribution not only to American intellectual history and to the
history of religion, but to 'America in Search of a Soul', as
Thurman titled one of his sermons. This documentary edition is made
possible through the efforts of the Howard Thurman Papers Project,
a division of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College in
Atlanta. This project is funded through support from the Lilly
Endowment, Inc.; the Henry Luce Foundation; the Pew Charitable
Trusts, Inc.; and the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission.
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