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"That's Not How the Story Ends:" Vincent Harding's Liberating Vision of African American Religious History.
- Source :
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Black Theology: An International Journal . Nov2019, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p176-194. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- A critical reappraisal of Vincent Harding's transformative work as a preeminent historian of the African American freedom struggle is long overdue. Examining Harding's major works – There Is A River (1981), Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero (1996), and Hope and History (1990) – this paper focuses on Harding's revisionist approach to US religious history by addressing three historiographical elements: radical reinterpretation of historical narrative from the perspective of the oppressed; the uses and abuses of biography in the historical representations of Dr. King in popular culture and collective memory; and articulation of a philosophy of history rooted in a theology of hope and human flourishing. This paper illustrates how Harding's writings advance a liberating vision for history as both a discipline and discursive realm in service to social justice and human dignity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *HISTORY of religion
*AFRICAN Americans
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14769948
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Black Theology: An International Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 139806199
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14769948.2019.1680515