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Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize: Birmingham Mass Meeting Rhetoric and the Prophetic Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement - Couverture souple

Holmes, David G.

 
9781532615276: Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize: Birmingham Mass Meeting Rhetoric and the Prophetic Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1532615272 ISBN 13 : 9781532615276
Editeur : Cascade Books, 2017

Synopsis

Among pivotal historical moments in the United States, the civil rights movement stands out. In Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize: Birmingham Mass Meeting Rhetoric and the Living Legacy of African American Prophecy, David G. Holmes offers an original rhetorical analysis of six speeches delivered during the 1963 civil rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. Holmes frames his analysis within the biblical concept of prophecy. However, he stresses the idea of prophecy as sociopolitical forth-telling, rather than mystical foretelling. Based on his own transcriptions from rare recordings, Holmes examines how these orations, which clergy and laypeople delivered, address enduring themes such as the role of religion and politics, black leadership and black activism, and the political and popular legacies of the civil rights movement. Drawing upon American history, politics, hermeneutics, homiletics, and rhetoric, Holmes's discussion ranges from civil rights prophets to contemporary politicians, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama. Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize illustrates how the Birmingham mass meeting oratory of 1963 represented a quality of democratic discourse desperately needed today.

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À propos de l'auteur

David G. Holmes is Professor of English and Rhetoric at Pepperdine University. The author of Revisiting Racialized Voice (2004), he is a frequent presenter at national conferences and has published articles in Rhetoric Review, College English, Black Camera, Journal of Black Studies, and Journal of Communication and Religion.

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Éditeur
Cascade Books
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1532615272
ISBN 13 
9781532615276
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
212
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