{"product_id":"american-prophecy-race-and-redemption-in-american-political-culture-paperback","title":"American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Shulman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe political meaning of prophetic language in America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProphecy is the fundamental idiom of American politics-a biblical rhetoric about redeeming the crimes, suffering, and promise of a special people. Yet American prophecy and its great practitioners-from Frederick Douglass and Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison-are rarely addressed, let alone analyzed, by political theorists. This paradox is at the heart of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prophecy, \u003c\/i\u003e a work in which George Shulman unpacks and critiques the political meaning of American prophetic rhetoric.\u003c\/p\u003e In the face of religious fundamentalisms that associate prophecy and redemption with dogmatism and domination, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prophecy\u003c\/i\u003e finds connections between prophetic language and democratic politics, particularly racial politics. Exploring how American critics of white supremacy have repeatedly reworked biblical prophecy, Shulman demonstrates how these writers and thinkers have transformed prophecy into a political language and given redemption a political meaning. To examine how antiracism is linked to prophecy as a vernacular idiom is to rethink political theology, recast democratic theory, and reassess the bearing of religion on American political culture. Still, prophetic language is not always liberatory, and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prophecy\u003c\/i\u003e maintains a critical dispassion about a rhetoric that is both prevalent and problematic.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Shulman is associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University and the author of \u003ci\u003eRadicalism and Reverence: The Political Thought of Gerrard Winstanley.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45762762539205,"sku":"9780816630752","price":59.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/hbY4cG7IAT9780816630752.webp?v=1781332056","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/american-prophecy-race-and-redemption-in-american-political-culture-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}