{"product_id":"a-darkly-radiant-vision-the-black-social-gospel-in-the-shadow-of-mlk-9780300264524","title":"A Darkly Radiant Vision: The Black Social Gospel in the Shadow of Mlk","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe third and final volume in the first comprehensive history of Black social Christianity, by the \"greatest theological ethicist of the twenty-first century\" (Michael Eric Dyson)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBreaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Darkly Radiant Vision\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Dorrien\u003c\/b\u003e is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and professor of religion at Columbia University. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBreaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSocial Democracy in the Making: Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562573730066,"sku":"9780300264524","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6728d894-79b1-48e6-a255-1a129a0f4011.jpg?v=1731861250","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-darkly-radiant-vision-the-black-social-gospel-in-the-shadow-of-mlk-9780300264524","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}