{"product_id":"american-prophecy-george-shulman-9780816630752","title":"American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e The political meaning of prophetic language in America \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Prophecy 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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Shulman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816630755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816630752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/08\/2008 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/10\/2008 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2008 pg. 169\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2009","brand":"George Shulman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120333254911,"sku":"9780816630752","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_efa2afa9-8e01-4d5a-b284-1cf660e86f63.jpg?v=1687413770","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-prophecy-george-shulman-9780816630752","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}