Revives My Soul Again: The Spirituality of Martin Luther King Jr. - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506424708 ISBN 13: 9781506424705

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2018

Synopsis

MLK and the Practice of Spirituality

The scholarship on Martin Luther King Jr. is seriously lacking in terms of richly nuanced and revelatory treatments of his spirituality and spiritual life. This book addresses this neglect by focusing on King's life as a paradigm of a deep, vital, engaging, balanced, and contagious spirituality. It shows that the essence of the person King was lies in the quality of his own spiritual journey and how that translated into not only a personal devotional life of prayer, meditation, and fasting but also a public ministry that involved the uplift and empowerment of humanity. Much attention is devoted to King's spiritual leadership, to his sense of the civil rights movement as "a spiritual movement," and to his efforts to rescue humanity from what he termed a perpetual "death of the spirit." Readers encounter a figure who took seriously the personal, interpersonal, and sociopolitical aspects of the Christian faith, thereby figuring prominently in recasting the very definition of spirituality in his time. King's "holistic spirituality" is presented here with a clarity and power fresh for our own generation.

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About the Authors

Lewis V. Baldwin is professor emeritus of religious studies at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1991); To Make the Wounded Whole: The Cultural Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1992); and Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010).

Victor Anderson is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Vanderbilt Divinity School. He is also the Associate Professor of African American Studies and Religious Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Diana L. Hayes is professor emerita of systematic theology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She earned the JD degree from George Washington National Law Center, her STB and STL degrees from the Catholic University of America, and a PhD in religious studies from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Among her many books are And Still We Rise: An Introduction to Black Liberation Theology (1996) and Were You There? Stations of the Cross (2000).

Walter Earl Fluker is Executive Director of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College, Atlanta; the Coca-Cola Professor of Leadership Studies there; and editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project.

Beverly Lanzetta is Research Associate at the Southwest Institute for Research on Women, at the University of Arizona Tucson. She is the author of Emerging Heart (2007, 978-0-8006- 3893-1) and Radical Wisdom (2005, 978-0-8006-3698-2).

Edition details

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1506424708
• ISBN 13: 9781506424705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 307
• Editor: Baldwin Lewis V., Anderson Victor