Reclaiming the Great World House (eBook)

The Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr.

Lewis V. Baldwin, Vicki L. Crawford (Herausgeber)

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2019
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-5603-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The burgeoning terrain of Martin Luther King Jr. studies is leading to a new appreciation of his thought and its meaningfulness for the emergence and shaping of the twenty-first-century world. This volume brings together an impressive array of scholars from various backgrounds and disciplines to explore the global significance of King-then, now, and in the future.Employing King's metaphor of "e;the great world house,"e; the major focus is on King's appraisal of the global-human struggle in the 1950s and 1960s, his relevance for today's world, and how future generations might constructively apply or appropriate his key ideas and values in addressing racism, poverty and economic injustice, militarism, sexism, homophobia, the environmental crisis, globalization, and other challenges confronting humanity today. The contributors treat King in context and beyond context, taking seriously the historical King while also exploring how his name, activities, contributions, and legacy are still associated with a globalized rights culture.

Autor

Vicki L. Crawford (Editor)
VICKI L. CRAWFORD is the director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Collection at Morehouse College and general editor of the Morehouse College King Collection Series on Civil and Human Rights. She is a coeditor of Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941–1965 and the author of numerous scholarly articles.

Lewis V. Baldwin (Editor)
LEWIS V. BALDWIN is a professor emeritus of religious studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of many books, including To Make the Wounded Whole: The Cultural Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.; Toward the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King Jr. and South Africa; and Behind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.10.2019
• Reihe/Serie: The Morehouse College King Collection Series on Civil and Human Rights
• Reihe/Serie: The Morehouse College King Collection Series on Civil and Human Rights Ser.
• Co-Autor: Althea Legal-Miller, Michael B. McCormack, Larry Rivers, Rosetta E. Ross, Gary S. Selby, Amy E. Steele, Nimi Wariboko, Crystal A. deGregory, Victor Anderson, Lewis V. Baldwin, Teresa Delgado, Walter E. Fluker, Robert Franklin, Rufus Burrow Jr, Mary E. King, Hak Joon Lee
• Vorwort: Robert Franklin
• Verlagsort: Athens
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: 1950s • 1960s • activism • Civil Rights • civil rights leader • class struggles • Economic Injustice • ethics • global-human struggles • human community • Human Rights • Militarism • MLK Jr. Collection • Morehouse College • Morehouse College King Collection Series on Civil and Human Rights • Philosophy • Political Science • Poverty • race studies • Racism • Sexism • the environmental crisis • vanderbilt university • women and queer liberation
• ISBN-10: 0-8203-5603-4 / 0820356034
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5603-7 / 9780820356037