Rhetoric, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rhetoric, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 write by Davis W. Houck. This book was released on 2006. Rhetoric, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. V.2: Building upon their critically acclaimed first volume, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon's new Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 is a recovery project of enormous proportions. Houck and Dixon have again combed church archives, government documents, university libraries, and private collections in pursuit of the civil rights movement's long-buried eloquence. Their new work presents fifty new speeches and sermons delivered by both famed leaders and little-known civil rights activists on national stages and in quiet shacks. The speeches carry novel insights into the ways in which individuals and communities utilized religious rhetoric to upset the racial status quo in divided America during the civil rights era. Houck and Dixon's work illustrates again how a movement so prominent in historical scholarship still has much to teach us. (Publisher).
Rhetoric, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965: Proclaim liberty
Rhetoric, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965: Proclaim liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rhetoric, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965: Proclaim liberty write by . This book was released on 2006. Rhetoric, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965: Proclaim liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize
Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize write by David G. Holmes. This book was released on 2017-11-13. Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Prophetic Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, 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.
A Stone of Hope
A Stone of Hope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Stone of Hope write by David L. Chappell. This book was released on 2009-12-07. A Stone of Hope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress. Rather, it is a story of the power of religious tradition. Chappell reconsiders the intellectual roots of civil rights reform, showing how northern liberals' faith in the power of human reason to overcome prejudice was at odds with the movement's goal of immediate change. Even when liberals sincerely wanted change, they recognized that they could not necessarily inspire others to unite and fight for it. But the prophetic tradition of the Old Testament--sometimes translated into secular language--drove African American activists to unprecedented solidarity and self-sacrifice. Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, James Lawson, Modjeska Simkins, and other black leaders believed, as the Hebrew prophets believed, that they had to stand apart from society and instigate dramatic changes to force an unwilling world to abandon its sinful ways. Their impassioned campaign to stamp out "the sin of segregation" brought the vitality of a religious revival to their cause. Meanwhile, segregationists found little support within their white southern religious denominations. Although segregationists outvoted and outgunned black integrationists, the segregationists lost, Chappell concludes, largely because they did not have a religious commitment to their cause.
This Worldwide Struggle
This Worldwide Struggle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Worldwide Struggle write by Sarah Azaransky. This book was released on 2017-05-16. This Worldwide Struggle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement identifies a network of black Christian intellectuals and activists who looked abroad, even in other religious traditions, for ideas and practices that could transform American democracy. From the 1930s to the 1950s, they drew lessons from independence movements around for the world for an American racial justice campaign. Their religious perspectives and methods of moral reasoning developed theological blueprints for the classical phase of the Civil Rights Movement. The network included professors and public intellectuals Howard Thurman, Benjamin Mays, and William Stuart Nelson, each of whom met with Mohandas Gandhi in India; ecumenical movement leaders, notably YWCA women, Juliette Derricotte, Sue Bailey Thurman, and Celestine Smith; and pioneers of black Christian nonviolence James Farmer, Pauli Murray, and Bayard Rustin. People in this group became mentors and advisors to and coworkers with Martin Luther King and thus became links between Gandhi, who was killed in 1948, and King, who became a national figure in 1956. Azaransky's research reveals fertile intersections of worldwide resistance movements, American racial politics, and interreligious exchanges that crossed literal borders and disciplinary boundaries, and underscores the role of religion in justice movements. Shedding new light on how international and interreligious encounters were integral to the greatest American social movement of the last century, This Worldwide Struggle confirms the relationship between moral reflection and democratic practice, and it contains vital lessons for movement building today.
