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American Prophecy

race and redemption in American political culture

by George Shulman & George M. Shulman

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  • 21st century
  • Language: English

Description

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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 w

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Prophecy, oracles, and revelation.

  • Prophecy, oracles, and revelation

    Controlled discovery queries from gegnir and openalex matched “Prophecy” and “prophecy”. Retained metadata contains “Prophecy” in the title, “Prophecy” in the description, “prophetic” in the description, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Prophecy”· via Gegnir/Leitir — Icelandic Union Catalogue
    • “prophecy”· via OpenAlex
    • “Prophecy”· in title
    • “Prophecy”· in description
    • “prophetic”· in description
    • “Prophecies”· in subject

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race and redemption in American political culture

OpenAlex scholarly book record

1 online resource (340 p.); Description based upon print version of record; Dewey classification: 306.2089/00973; Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-292) and index; Publication place: Minneapolis

2008-09-12University of Minnesota Press; University of Minnesota Press eBooksEnglish
  • 0816666180
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