...Part I of A Seat at the Table, “Foundations of Black Women’s Public Intellectualism,” includes two chapters, “‘Fired with a Holy Ambition’: Maria W. Stewart and the Foundations of Black Women’s Jeremiadic Tradition,” by Lacey Hunter and “‘Did Not Mary First Preach...

..., and both rested on assumptions of continued material abundance. The City Upon a Hill idea, previously highlighted academically by Perry Miller, was politically misappropriated as the Shining City; this formulation is contrasted with Jimmy Carter’s failed invocation of the Protestant jeremiad. Instead...

... and ‘utopian’ fiction, but also the conquest story, the atrocity exposé, the settlers’ covenant, the captivity and conversion narrative, and the extended Eucharistic meditation and puritan jeremiad—and the novel. American colonies Shakespeare William conversion Daniel Samuel epic poetry Eucharist Hakluyt...

... Jeremiah Parker Theodore Richter Jean Paul Friedrich Ripley George Schleiermacher Friedrich Bercovitch Sacvan Fuller Margaret Hedge Frederic Henry Bartlet Phebe Hutchinson Abigail Ripley Sophia Willard Dana Concord Massachusetts Morgan Edmund Puritanism jeremiad Unitarian theologian...

...This chapter examines key episodes in America's nearly 400-year history of jeremiad—a longstanding rhetorical tradition that recognized America as existing in a special, covenanted relationship with God; as well as a nation with a special purpose to accomplish in the world. This notion echoed down...

...This chapter introduces the jeremiad, a form of political rhetoric that laments a degenerate present as compared to a virtuous past and calls the nation to reform and renewal. The chapter more specifically focuses on the American jeremiad, which nests the story of decline within a larger sacred...

...This chapter provides an in‐depth exploration of the jeremiad in second‐generation New England (c.1660–1685). Delivered primarily in the form of election or fast day sermons, the New England jeremiad decried the community's falling‐away from its godly origins, praised the colonies' founders...

... by the jeremiad in the American culture wars. It opens by considering two participants in these culture wars—Pat Buchanan and Bill Moyers—and then moves on to a consideration of the ways that cultural politics provide compelling plots for American Jeremiahs to organize their narratives of decline and renewal...

...This chapter concludes the book by reflecting on the relationship between the American jeremiad and notions of American national identity, more particularly the idea of national chosenness. The chapter argues that the traditionalist jeremiad, while as deeply rooted in the American tradition as its...

... integrationism jeremiad Jeremian our tears and our blood pastoral ministry prophetic warning Reconstruction Richard Allen “turning,” wilderness William J. Simmons The nation’s crisis and corruption stemming from failure to observe God’s law and the resulting possibility of divine intervention to secure...

...This chapter reviews the development of the puritan jeremiad tradition within the logic of covenant theology and suggests ways that its influence persisted in American culture after the era of regional puritan ascendancy. This chapter shows how the jeremiad, while wholly negative on the surface...

...This chapter explores the trajectories of two traditions of thinking about godlessness, which move in opposite directions in the 1970s and 1980s: the jeremiad tradition and the social scientific tradition. During this period, evangelicals and fundamentalists forcefully reasserted themselves...

... a Chicano jeremiad. Like Gandhi and King, he became a deployed satyagraha, ahimsa, love force, and nonviolence. The chapter distinguishes between King and Chavez by their religious constructions of temporality. Francis of Assisi Saint ahimsa nonviolence Clinton Bill colonialism Mahony Roger archbishop...

... homoeroticism Jerome Saint Wallington Nehemiah city sermons Jeremiad Paul's Cross Fast Day St. Paul's London At the beginning of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (1678 ), the author dreams that he sees the despairing pilgrim Christian speaking to his wife and children. “I am...

...Against the normative view of W. E. B. Du Bois as hostile to and uninterested in religion, this book argues that religion furnishes Du Bois writings with their distinctive moral vocabulary. Du Bois's work is a rich world of sermonic essays, jeremiads, biblical rhetoric, and prayers all of which...

... recapitulation of the historical background of evangelical and fundamentalist involvement in 20th‐century American politics, the chapter looks at the Christian Right jeremiad, which emphasizes the 1960s as the time period when a godly nation strayed from its moral and spiritual roots and embraced an ideology...

...This chapter attends more closely to the competing ways of constructing and drawing on the past that each type of jeremiad employs. The chapter opens with a consideration of the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Abington v. Schempp(1963), which outlawed public school prayer...

...This book traces the emergence and development of the American jeremiad, a form of political rhetoric that laments the nation's decline from a virtuous past and calls it to repentance and renewal. Employed by Americans of all political persuasions since the earliest days of settlement, the jeremiad...

.... In their view, the nation is in decline, but if they can restore their nostalgic, imagined past, it will prosper once more. This jeremiad is central to white Christian nationalism, and it is perpetuated by the Christian heritage industry, including Christian heritage tours that capitalize on the ambient...

... from England. Narratives seeking to understand these epidemics led to the parallel development of the halfway covenant and the New England jeremiad, and signal what we might call a biological evolution of citizenship in New England, where shared immunological responses to illness set the ideological...