Description
The Black social gospel is a tradition of unsurpassed and ongoing importance in American life, argues Gary Dorrien in his groundbreaking trilogy on the history of Black social Christianity. This concluding volume, an interpretation of the tradition since the early 1970s, follows Dorrien's award-winning The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel and Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel.
Beginning in the shadow of Martin Luther King Jr., Dorrien examines the past fifty years of this intellectual and activist tradition, interpreting its politics, theology, ethics, social criticism, and social justice organizing. He argues that Black social Christianity is today an intersectional tradition of discourse and activist religion that interrelates liberation theology, womanist theology, antiracist politics, LGBTQ+ theory, cultural criticism, progressive religion, broad-based interfaith organizing, and global solidarity politics.
A Darkly Radiant Vision features in-depth discussions of Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson, Samuel DeWitt Proctor, Gayraud Wilmore, James Cone, Cornel West, Katie Geneva Cannon, Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Traci Blackmon, William J. Barber II, Raphael G. Warnock, and many others.
Product Details
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Publish Date | July 25, 2023 |
| Pages | 632 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780300264524 |
| Dimensions | 9.4 X 6.4 X 1.6 inches | 2.4 pounds |
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Reviews
Selected by Reading Religion as a Best Book of 2024
"A masterful account of Black theology and political sensibility in the post-civil rights era."--Andrew C. Stout, Englewood Review of Books
"A monumental accomplishment. . . . Dorrien's depth of research and personal relationships with many of the figures on which he writes make his history compelling even for those already familiar with [Andrew] Young, [Jesse] Jackson, and the history of academic Black theology."--David C. Justice, Reading Religion
"Dorrien is the right person to explain how Black thinkers carved out a social theology distinct from White Christian thinkers in the United States. . . . Masterful."--Douglas E. Thompson, Peace and Change
Recipient of the Morehouse College Gandhi, King, Mandela Peace Prize
"This book is nothing short of stellar, fulfilling its promise to provide an expansive history of this tradition from the assassination of MLK to the present."--Rubén Rosario Rodriguez, Saint Louis University
"Gary Dorrien is our foremost, most important, and most effective chronicler and interpreter of liberal and liberationist theology. He brings to his task his enormous great erudition, his appetite for data, his sharp critical discernment, and his great moral passion. With this book he completes his trilogy on recent Black theology. More than that, however, this book is a state-of-the-art critical assessment of recent Black theology that gives us close-up contact with the players (famous and less famous) who have shaped the enterprise. This book will be important reading for those who want to know how we got here, and what remains to be done in the work of faithful justice. Dorrien has laid down a marker to which careful attention must be paid."--Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary
"What Gary Dorrien has accomplished in this book of otherworldly learning, insight, and ambition is simply unheard of. Combining deep historical research and knowledge with outstanding analytical clarity and a journalistic voice, this book is simply mesmerizing."--Jonathan Tran, author of Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism
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