...This chapter examines how Frederick Douglass translated political action into ideologies and practices of intellectual culture in order to deal with the repercussions of slavery. Undoubtedly, the efforts of African Americans to negotiate, secure, and share social power were a direct function...

... that African Americans, then described as a race, could be uplifted in moral, educational and cultural ways. Indeed, African American intellectuals used literature to explain or critique racial uplift and its cultural implementation as political action. Focusing on criticism and function, the chapter shows...

... trafficking Harold Caballeros El Shaddai individual political action citizenship participation What are Pentecostal politics? The answer to this question, at least for the purposes of this chapter, does not linger on political biographies. Pentecostal politicians, even Pentecostal presidents, are well...

... time. Partisan loyalty can be essential in politics, because political action takes memory and patience. However, this kind of constitutive loyalty, though crucial for effective political action, also invites serious pathologies. Most important among these is the way loyalty threatens to bring...

...In a concluding chapter, Rhys H. Williams assesses the ways in which attention to the complexities of progressive religion in the United States forces us to reassess longstanding theoretical understandings of religion, social movements, civic life, and political action. Drawing out key themes...

... a tension between radical queer and complicit political action. Their lived experiences also point to a rich complexity: LGBT persons of faith who embrace their sexual identity not in spite of but because of their commitment to Jewish scripture, tradition, and way of life....

... nonfiction and public policy. Evidently, African American literature fueled their political imaginations. Thus, this book looks at African American literature's role in political imagination and political action—to the extent that it can facilitate social change—and political action's role in the African...

... societies face a variety of structural problems that limit potentials for true democratization, as well as vast inequalities in political action and voice that are not easily resolved by participatory solutions. Popular participation may even reinforce elite power in unexpected ways. This book reveals...

... liberal democratic theory of Walzer Michael Miller William Tracy Karen Braithwaite Valerie autonomous thought autonomous action democracy political judgment political action human psychology As I understand George Marcus’s project presented here as well as in The Sentimental Citizen...