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Religio-Political Narratives in the United States

Part of the Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137060051

ISBN: 978-1-349-29225-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2014

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1Not God Bless America, God Damn America: Black Rhetorical Performance and Patriotic Idealism

Sims, Angela D.; Powe, F. Douglas; Hill, Johnny Bernard

Pages: 1 –17

[In April 2008, Angela D. Sims, then an instructor of Christian Ethics and Black Church Studies at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri, received a handwritten note from one of the seminary’s donors asking Sims to elaborate on her comments in Helen T. Gray’s Kansas City Star...
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Chapter 2Disturbing the Peace: Theological Mandate to Construct an Inclusive Vision of Humanity

Sims, Angela D.; Powe, F. Douglas; Hill, Johnny Bernard

Pages: 19 –37

[In light of visual depictions of Obama as nonhuman1 it is hard to imagine seven words, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” having more meaning than what they supposedly represent to a population segment that has garnered much media attention in the current political climate in the...
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Chapter 3Liberation for All

Sims, Angela D.; Powe, F. Douglas; Hill, Johnny Bernard

Pages: 39 –57

[We just argued that taking the words life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness seriously can have significant implications for our collective humanity. It is interesting that President Obama began his second term with a focus on this phrase by distinguishing between concepts of “self-evident...
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Chapter 4The World House: Reclaiming the Dream of Dr. King in the Age of Obama

Sims, Angela D.; Powe, F. Douglas; Hill, Johnny Bernard

Pages: 59 –71

[Competing religio-political narratives in the United States of America have continued, to the present time, to appear throughout the history of this country’s theo-drama. From the fragile days of the American War of Independence where Thomas Paine, on the eve of signing the Declaration of...
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Chapter 5When Black Is Not Black Enough

Sims, Angela D.; Powe, F. Douglas; Hill, Johnny Bernard

Pages: 73 –93

[These and similar phrases were spoken throughout the 2008 presidential campaign in an effort to pinpoint then Senator Barack Obama’s heritage as though this would determine his stance on racial matters. For many, the issue was not Obama’s heritage, but how black is he. In other words, was he...
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Chapter 6Reclaiming the Prophetic: Toward a Theology of Hope and Justice in a Fragmented World

Sims, Angela D.; Powe, F. Douglas; Hill, Johnny Bernard

Pages: 95 –115

[An idea to reclaim prophetic dimensions of biblical narratives arises from the fact that God calls us to think and act in relation to all spheres of human experience—social, political, economic, and religious. The 2008 presidential election created a hopeful perspective for many individuals...
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Chapter 7The World House: The Beloved Community as a New Global Vision for Peace and Justice

Sims, Angela D.; Powe, F. Douglas; Hill, Johnny Bernard

Pages: 117 –135

[Many people still revel in the January 2009 historic inauguration of President Barack Hussein Obama where millions of Americans across racial, ethnic, economic, and generational lines, from every region of the world, gathered in tribute and celebration. In the shadows of rulers and leaders from...
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Chapter 8Unlocking Doors of Hope: A Quest for Enduring Peace and Justice

Sims, Angela D.; Powe, F. Douglas; Hill, Johnny Bernard

Pages: 137 –150

[More than 50 years ago, a man who dared to dream that the United States of America’s “bank of justice”1 is solvent became the youngest and the third person of African descent to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.2 Approximately 45 years after the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accepted this...
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Chapter 9Conclusion

Sims, Angela D.; Powe, F. Douglas; Hill, Johnny Bernard

Pages: 151 –153

[On August 28, 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his now infamous speech “I Have a Dream” in Washington, DC. Thousands gathered at the Lincoln Memorial and adjacent areas surrounding the reflecting pool to hear this scholar-pastor utter a prophetic word in a nation that used...

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