Prophetic encounters
Subtitle: religion and the American radical tradition
By: Dan McKanan
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780807013175
Subjects: Radicals; Religion and politics; Religion and social problems; History; Social reformers; Social movements
Notes: Originally published: 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The faith of the working men; title: African identity and Black radicalism; title: Encounters with William Lloyd Garrison; title: Personifying radical abolitionism; title: Radicals fight and unite; title: Confronting the slave power; title: New religions for radicalism; title: Women's rights, women ministers, and a woman's bible; title: The Jesus of labor; title: Encountering the city; title: The religion of socialism; title: The radical depression; title: The Gandhian moment; title: Mentors of a new left; title: New encounters in the south; title: Expanding circles of encounter; title: From encounter to confrontation; title: Rebuilding the Left; title: A women's decade; title: Resisting the right; title: The future of radicalism.