"That's Not How the Story Ends": Vincent Harding's Liberating Vision of African American Religious History
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) - thi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2019]
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Black theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 176-194 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church KDG Free church NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Martin Luther King Jr
B Black Lives Matter Movement B Black freedom struggle B Vincent G. Harding B theology of hope |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1670 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Black theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2019.1680515 |