TY - BOOK AU - Raboteau,Albert J. TI - American prophets: seven religious radicals and their struggle for social and political justice SN - 9780691164304 PY - 2016/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Civil rights KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - United States KW - Religion KW - History KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Abraham Joshua Heschel, prophet of divine pathos -- A.J. Muste: the redemptive power of nonviolent suffering -- Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: doing the works of mercy -- Howard Thurman: in search of common ground -- Thomas Merton: contemplation in a world of action -- Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: religion in US politics -- "Is this America?" Fannie Lou Hamer and the voices of local people ER -