Remember, Celebrate, and Forget? The Martin Luther King Day and the Pitfalls of Civil Religion
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DOI: 10.1017/s0021875817001384
Abstract: 2016 marked the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the Martin Luther King Day, which honors the civil rights leader and recognizes the contributions of African Americans. However, the holiday has also become a day… read more here.
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Martin Luther and the metaphysics of music
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DOI: 10.1017/s0036930623000078
Abstract: This article traces convergences and differences within the classical philosophical tradition of musica and its later Christianisation, exploring Martin Luther's engagement with such metaphysical accounts of music's significance. Recent scholarship on Luther's agreement with a… read more here.
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Reconciling Rapacious Wolves and Misguided Sheep: Law and Responsibility in Martin Luther’s Response to the German Peasants’ War
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DOI: 10.1080/1462317x.2018.1463125
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper reexamines Martin Luther's legacy and ongoing importance by examining the insights and challenges in his response to the German Peasants' War by advancing two major claims. First, Luther rebuts the peasants' appeal… read more here.
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Martin Luther, Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper, and Martin Luther, Confessor of the Faith, by Robert Kolb
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DOI: 10.1080/1474225x.2017.1301702
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Keywords: renegade prophet; martin; prophet lyndal; luther renegade ... See more keywords
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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DOI: 10.1080/1756073x.2017.1380511
Abstract: is in Christ. Swinton’s account of life in Christ is absorbing but perhaps does too little to engage the felt horror of loss of stable identity. This is, however, mitigated in part by the book’s… read more here.
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Rereading Cain, Abel, and Martin Luther King Jr in Charles Johnson’s Dreamer
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DOI: 10.1093/litthe/fraa012
Abstract: Charles Johnson sets his 1998 novel Dreamer during the Chicago Freedom Movement that Martin Luther King Jr led in 1966. Alongside his fictionalised King character, Johnson imagines a doppelganger, Chaym Smith. Johnson develops the story… read more here.
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The Universal King? Memory, Globalization, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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DOI: 10.1111/soin.12186
Abstract: This article examines how Martin Luther King, Jr. is remembered and represented by journalists in Ghana, South Africa, and Mexico, looking at coverage of “critical discourse moments” from King's life and legacy (1963–2016). I argue… read more here.
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Thank Martin Luther that ciprofloxacin could cure your gonorrhoea? Ecological association between Protestantism and antimicrobial consumption in 30 European countries
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DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.26709.1
Abstract: Background: Higher consumption of antimicrobials plays an important role in driving the higher prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in Southern compared to Northern Europe. Poor controls on corruption (CoC), high uncertainty avoidance (UA) and performance vs.… read more here.
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Dream and Legacy: Dr. Martin Luther King in the Post-Civil Rights Era ed. by Michael L. Clemons, Donathan L. Brown, and William H. L. Dorsey (review)
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DOI: 10.1353/soh.2019.0069
Abstract: spare—135 pages before endnotes—but it is packed with harrowing tidbits and manages to contextualize the D.C. riots in both the larger scheme of 1960s America and as a stand-alone event. There is scant literature on… read more here.
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Symbolic Theology and Resistance in the Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Paul Tillich
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DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0229
Abstract: Abstract In this article, I study how symbolic theology can be advantageously utilized in the resistance against oppressing structures and ideologies. Studying two sermons of Paul Tillich and two speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.… read more here.
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A Friendship in the Prophetic Tradition: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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DOI: 10.3817/0318182067
Abstract: The long tradition of prophetic rhetoric in the United States reached an extraordinary peak with Martin Luther King, Jr., who made the Hebrew prophets central figures of the civil rights movement. King's voice, imbued with… read more here.
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