Prophetic Politics
Christian Social Movements And American Democracy
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7848549M
- ISBN-139780801441387
- ISBN-100801441382
- OCLC Control Number57392886
- OCLC Control Numberpropheticpolitic0000gutt
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004030944
- Goodreads7184690
- LibraryThing783450
Classifications
- LCCBR115.P7G88 2005
Description
"What 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 issues about the tense and intricate relationship between religion and politics."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
These are fragile times for our nation, according to the cries of many in the American public sphere.
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