Terrence L. Johnson

Tragic Soul-Life (eBook, PDF)

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Moral Crisis Facing American Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing insight from W.E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass and Toni Morrison, Terrence L. Johnson recasts the debate on the proper role of religion in politics as one about liberalism's failure to address the moral issues implicated in human suffering, subjugation and death as they emerge within political responses to antiblack racism, imperialism and sexism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199838189
• Artikelnr.: 38142174

Autorenporträt

Johnson is an Assistant Professor or Religion at Haverford College.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: Spiritual Isolation
Chapter Two Haunting Echoes: Tragic Soul-Life and the Souls of Our Ancestors
Chapter Three Spirit of Freedom
Chapter Four The Dead, Death, and Dying
Chapter Five The Spirit of Religion: Soul-Beauty and Human Strivings
Chapter Six Ethics in a World of Bad Faith
Conclusion