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American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice
Albert J. Raboteau
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Description for American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice
Hardback. The description for this book, Sharing the Divine Pathos: Seven Prophets of Modern America, will be forthcoming. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 Raboteau tells the remarkable stories of Abraham Joshua Heschel, A. J. Muste, Dorothy Day, Howard Thurman, Thomas Merton, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Fannie Lou Hamer--inspired individuals who succeeded in conveying their vision to the broader public through writing, speaking, demonstrating, and organizing. Raboteau traces how their paths crossed and their lives intertwined, creating a network ... Read more
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 Raboteau tells the remarkable stories of Abraham Joshua Heschel, A. J. Muste, Dorothy Day, Howard Thurman, Thomas Merton, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Fannie Lou Hamer--inspired individuals who succeeded in conveying their vision to the broader public through writing, speaking, demonstrating, and organizing. Raboteau traces how their paths crossed and their lives intertwined, creating a network ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
445 g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691164304
SKU
V9780691164304
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About Albert J. Raboteau
Albert J. Raboteau is the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion Emeritus at Princeton University. His books include Slave Religion: The Invisible Institution in the Antebellum South, A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History, and Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Reviews for American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice
This scholarly yet accessible primer to the role of faith in the lives of American activists challenges contemporary notions of the role of religion in politics and argues that empathy is a critical first step in addressing the suffering of others.
Publishers Weekly The subjects [of American Prophets] knew one another and participated, often shoulder-to-shoulder, in events like the ... Read more
Publishers Weekly The subjects [of American Prophets] knew one another and participated, often shoulder-to-shoulder, in events like the ... Read more