Reverend Albert Cleage Jr. And the Black Prophetic Tradition - A Reintroduction of the Black Messiah

Reverend Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Prophetic Tradition probes the sermonic material in Albert Cleage Jr.'s groundbreaking book, The Black Messiah (1969) and explores how and what the book has contributed to the broader scope of Black Liberation Theology and Black religious rhetoric in the past and present.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: What The Black Messiah Offers Religious and Rhetorical Studies
Chapter 3: A General Rhetorical Assessment of The Black Messiah
Chapter 4: Albert Cleage's Epistle to Stokely (A Close Reading)
Chapter 5: Brother Malcolm, Dr. King, and Black Power
Chapter 6: Conclusions
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Earle J. Fisher

Summary

Reverend Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Prophetic Tradition probes the sermonic material in Albert Cleage Jr.'s groundbreaking book, The Black Messiah (1969) and explores how and what the book has contributed to the broader scope of Black Liberation Theology and Black religious rhetoric in the past and present.

Product details

• Authors: Earle J. Fisher
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781793631077
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-107-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; RELIGION / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Religion & beliefs, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc