Prophetic Politics
Subtitle: Christian Social Movements And American Democracy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: June 9, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801441387
Subjects: Christian social thought & activity; Political structures: democracy; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; USA; Religion, Politics & State; History & Theory - General; Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism; United States - 20th Century; Christianity and politics; United States
First sentence: These are fragile times for our nation, according to the cries of many in the American public sphere.
Description: "What are the relationships among religion, politics, and narratives? What makes prophetic political narratives congenial or hostile to democratic political life? David S. Gutterman explores the prophetic politics of four twentieth- and twenty-first-century American Christian social movements: the Reverend Billy Sunday and his vision of "muscular Christianity"; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement; the conservative Christian male organization Promise Keepers; and the progressive antipoverty organization Call to Renewal." "Gutterman develops a theory based on the work of Hannah Arendt and others and employs this framework to analyze expressions of the prophetic impulse in the political narrative of the United States. In the process, he examines issues about the tense and intricate relationship between religion and politics."--BOOK JACKET.