The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in AmericaNYU Press, 1999 M09 1 - 292 páginas This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. At a time when social movements led by religious leaders, from Louis Farrakhan to Pat Buchanan, are playing a central role in American politics, James Darsey connects this radical tradition with its prophetic roots. |
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... religious idea as the umbilicus of a national community. I am not in agreement that such a religion can or should be either “civil” or that it will be at all like attending service at St. Stephen's Episcopal. In fact, I will confess ...
... religious right, enjoying greater and lesser degrees of credibility as the fortunes of the country—and the fortunes of individual Americans with it—have waxed and waned. Today, however, these topoi have become rhetorical staples of the ...
... religious commitment at the base of radical social movements: we talk of revolutionary “faith” and “zeal”; we refer to radical leaders as “prophets”; and we analyze radical rhetoric according to its “God terms” and “devil terms.” At the ...
... religious order.” Such an arrangement allows “matters of ultimate religious and moral truth” to be declared “essentially ... religion not in the dramatic, agonistic way of a “tempter,” but in its quiet, rational way as a substitute that ...
... religion, science, and the law. In fact, I argue, gay liberation has attempted to make its argument by pushing the pluralistic, adaptive assumptions of traditional rhetoric to their limit. The comparison of the Hebraic and the Hellenic ...
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35 | |
Wendell Phillips and | 61 |
The Passion | 85 |
The Word in Darkness III | 111 |
Joe McCarthys Rhetoric | 128 |
The Romantic Vision | 151 |
IO The Seraph and the Snake | 199 |
11 | 211 |
Index | 269 |
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America James Darsey Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |