There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King Jr. - Couverture souple

Baldwin, Lewis V.

 
9780800624576: There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King Jr.
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0800624572 ISBN 13 : 9780800624576
Editeur : Augsburg Fortress, 1991

Synopsis

The sources of Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s phenomenal and prophetic impact on life in America and beyond have never been adequately understood. In this path-breaking volume, Lewis Baldwin traces King's vision and activism not to his formal philosophical and theological development but directly to his roots in Southern black culture, where King spent most of his 39 years.King's appropriation of the Bible, Gandhi, American participatory democracy, Boston personalism, and the theologies of Reinhold Niebuhr and the Social Gospel makes sense, Baldwin argues, only against his visceral and abiding identification with black culture and the black Christian tradition. Working directly with the trove of King's sermons, speeches, and unpublished papers, Baldwin has reconstructed the pain and joy, the defeat and triumph King experienced in his formative family relationships, in the black church, in his childhood and education, in his marriage and children, in segregated black Atlanta, and in his leadership of America's civil rights movement. Baldwin's through research and engaging writing finally give us what King had but Scholars have missed: the sense of place that grounded his vision of the "beloved community."

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À propos de l?auteur

<p><b>Lewis V. Baldwin</b> is professor emeritus of religious studies at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of <i>There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr.</i> (1991); <i>To Make the Wounded Whole: The Cultural Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. </i>(1992); and <i>Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. </i>(2010).</p>

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Éditeur
Augsburg Fortress
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0800624572
ISBN 13 
9780800624576
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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