Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introducing Jeremiah's Legacy: Placing Prophecy in American Politics and Political Theory
2. Thoreau, the Reluctant Prophet: Moral Witness and Poetic Vision in Politics
Interlude: From Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin: Race and Prophecy
3. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Theistic Prophecy: Love, Sacrifice, and Democratic Politics
4. James Baldwin and the Racial State of Exception: Secularizing Prophecy?
5. Toni Morrison and Prophecy: "This Is Not a Story to Pass On"
Conclusion: Prophecy as Vernacular Political Theology
Notes
Index