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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $11.86
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Manufacturer: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 220.08996
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Publication Date: 1991-07
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Reading Level: 260
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $4.43
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Eric Dyson
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 241
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Publication Date: 2006-08-23
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Of the seven deadly sins, pride is the only one with a virtuous side. It is certainly a good thing to have pride in one's country, in one's community, in oneself. But when taken too far, as Michael Eric Dyson shows in Pride, these virtues become deadly sins.
Dyson, named by Ebony magazine as one of the 100 most influential African Americans, here looks at the many dimensions of pride. Ranging from Augustine and Aquinas, MacIntyre and Hauerwas, to Niebuhr and King, Dyson offers a thoughtful, multifaceted look at this "virtuous vice." He probes the philosophical and theological roots of pride in examining its transformation in Western culture. Dyson discusses how black pride keeps blacks from being degraded and excluded by white pride, which can be invisible, unspoken, but nonetheless very powerful. Dyson also offers a moving glimpse into the teachers and books that shaped his personal pride and vocation. Dyson also looks at less savory aspects of national pride. Since 9/11, he notes, we have had to close ranks. But the collective embrace of all things American, to the exclusion of anything else, has taken the place of a much richer, much more enduring, much more profound version of love of country. This unchecked pride asserts the supremacy of America above all others--elevating our national beliefs above any moral court in the world--and attacking critics of American foreign policy as unpatriotic and even traitorous.
Hubris, temerity, arrogance--the unquestioned presumption that one's way of life defines how everyone else should live--pride has many destructive manifestations. In this engaging and energetic volume, Michael Eric Dyson, one of the nation's foremost public intellectuals, illuminates this many-sided human emotion, one that can be an indispensable virtue or a deadly sin.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $14.00
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Manufacturer: Plume
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Lerner::Cornel West
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Publisher: Plume
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073
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Publication Date: 1996-02-01
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Examining the issues that have united blacks and Jews in the past and that now separate them, two long-time friends and leading intellectuals try to restore the special relationship between the two groups in a hard-hitting and worthwhile exchange. Reprint. K.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $34.03
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Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.08996073
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Publication Date: 2003-11
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Reading Level: 1080
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Description: "We have organized this book, in some ways, to tell a story about what black agents have done and made in light of the historical conditions that give their beliefs, choices, and actions meaning….We hold the view that African American religious studies at its best tries to make theoretically explicit what is implicit in history, to describe and demystify cultural and social practices and offer solutions to urgent problems besetting African Americans." —from the Introduction Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer the discipline into the future. Arguing that the complexity of beliefs, choices, and actions of African Americans need not be reduced to expressions of black religion, West and Glaude call for more careful reflection on the complex relationships of African American religious studies to conceptions of class, gender, sexual orientation, race, empire, and other values that continue to challenge our democratic ideals.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $18.95
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David L. Chappell
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2005-08-29
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Reading Level: 360
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Description: The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas af
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $17.90
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Manufacturer: John Knox Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: CLEOPHUS, J LARUE
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Publisher: John Knox Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 251.008996073
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Publication Date: 1999-11-01
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: By Midwest Book Review Cleophus J. LaRue's Heart Of Black Preaching provides important insights on why black preaching is strong and active, connecting with the real-life experiences of listeners. Too many preachers leave God out: LaRue considers the important connections between life experiences and religion which make black preachers so effective in their communities. Another reviewer wrote: This is a super book for anyone wanting to know the history and present day dynamics of black preaching. LaRue brings forth a wealth of information on great black preachers of the past and he also draws upon current African American preachers on the American scene. He claims there is a particular way of viewing God that is distinctive to black preaching. Moreover, he argues that there are five domains or spheres of black lived experience that are very helpful to black preaching. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to gain a greater understanding of the particulars of black preaching and a greater understanding of how to prepare your own sermons. It is a most helpful book. Great!
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $5.98
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Richard Lischer
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 252
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Publication Date: 1997-02-06
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Today it seems extraordinary that a nation the size of the United States could have been so profoundly affected by the minister of a little Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. But at a turning point in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr., had an incalculable effect on the fabric of daily life and the laws of the nation. As no other preacher in living memory and no politician since Lincoln, he transposed the themes of love, suffering, deliverance, and justice from the sacred shelter of the pulpit into the arena of public policy. He was the last great religious reformer in America. How the man who always saw himself as "fundamentally a clergyman, a Baptist preacher" crafted his strategic vision and moved a nation to renewal is the subject of this remarkable new book.
The Preacher King investigates Martin Luther King Jr.'s, religious development from a precocious "PK" ("preacher's kid") in segregated Atlanta to the most influential American preacher and orator of the twentieth century. To give the most accurate and intimate portrait possible, author Richard Lischer draws almost exclusively on King's unpublished sermons and speeches, as well as tape recordings, personal interviews, and even police surveillance reports. In King's published works, Lischer shows, King and his editors modified and polished his sermons in order to reach as wide an audience as possible. By returning to the raw sources, Lischer recaptures King's real, African-American, preaching voice and, consequently, something of the real King himself. He shows how as the son, the grandson, and the great-grandson of preachers, King early on absorbed the poetic cadences, the traditions, and the power of the pulpit. He traces King's coming of age from his rebellious teenage years (King once wrote that at thirteen he shocked his Sunday School class by "denying the bodily resurrection of Jesus") to his arrival in Montgomery, where he took on the role of "Brother Pastor" to his flock during the year of ministry before he burst into national prominence. Lischer shows that King was as profoundly influenced by his fellow African-American preachers as he was by Gandhi and the philosophers, and tracks King's themes of brotherhood and justice from the set pieces of his weekly sermons to his electrifying mass meeting speeches, demonstrations, and civil addresses. Lischer also reveals a later phase of King's development that few of his biographers or critics have addressed: the prophetic rage with which he condemned American religious and political hypocrisy. During the last three years of his life, Lischer shows, King accused his country of genocide, warned of long hot summers in the ghettos, and called for a radical redistribution of wealth.
More than any other book, The Preacher King captures the crucial aspect of the identity of Martin Luther King, Jr. Human, complex, and passionate, here is a preacher who never gave up trying to shape a congregation of people that would be capable of redeeming the moral and political character of the nation.
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $9.65
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Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gwendolin Sims Warren
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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 782
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Publication Date: 1999-11-15
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: For over 200 years in African-American churches throughout the country, gospel and spiritual music have offered solace and been a source of celebration, leaving a mark not only on the Christian world, but on popular music as well. Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit contains the lyrics and music of 101 of the most widely known and cherished of these pieces, ranging from heartring spirituals sung during slave times (Steal Away; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot) to songs of unity from the civil rights movement and contemporary times (We Shall Overcome, I'll Fly Away). The book also presents a biography of each composer and the history of the evolution of each song, examining the role it played in enabling African-Americans to develop the strength to carry on in the face of adversity. An important historical document as well as an inspirational gift, the book captures the rich connections between song and experience as no other volume does.
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Price: $8.50
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Sale: $4.07
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Manufacturer: Abingdon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sheron C. Patterson
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Publisher: Abingdon Press
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Edition: Workbook
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Dewey Decimal Number: 221.922
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Publication Date: 2005-05-15
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Reading Level: 131
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $12.42
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephanie Y. Mitchem
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.082
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Publication Date: 2002-05
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Reading Level: 178
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