American Prophets : : Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice / / Albert J. Raboteau.
American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social activism was motivated by a deeply felt compassion for those suffering injustice.In this compelling and provocative book, acclaimed religious scholar Albert...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 8 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Abraham Joshua Heschel, Prophet of Divine Pathos
- Chapter 2. A. J. Muste: The Redemptive Power of Nonviolent Suffering
- Chapter 3. Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: Doing the Works of Mercy
- Chapter 4. Howard Thurman: In Search of Common Ground
- Chapter 5. Thomas Merton: Contemplation in a World of Action
- Chapter 6. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Religion in US Politics
- Chapter 7. "Is This America?" Fannie Lou Hamer and the Voices of Local People
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index