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The preacher king : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the word that moved America / Richard Lischer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lischer, Richard, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Preaching--United States--History--20th century.
- Preaching.
- Sermons, American--African American authors.
- Sermons, American.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
- King, Martin Luther.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Lischer investigates King's religious development from a precocious preacher's kid in segregated Atlanta to the most influential American preacher and orator of the 20th century.
- Contents:
- Surrounded
- Apprenticed to the word
- Dexter Avenue and "the daybreak of freedom"
- What he received : units of tradition
- The strategies of style
- From identification to rage
- The masks of character
- In the mirror of the Bible
- The Ebenezer gospel
- Bearing "the gospel of freedom" : the mass meeting.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2020.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 9, 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-006515-X
- 0-19-006513-3
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