{"product_id":"there-is-a-balm-in-gilead-the-cultural-roots-of-martin-luther-king-jr-paperback-1","title":"There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King Jr. - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLewis V. Baldwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sources of Martin Luther King, Jr., 's phenomenal and prophetic impact on life in America and beyond have never been adequately understood. In this path-breaking volume, Lewis Baldwin traces King's vision and activism not to his formal philosophical and theological development but directly to his roots in Southern black culture, where King spent most of his 39 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing's appropriation of the Bible, Gandhi, American participatory democracy, Boston personalism, and the theologies of Reinhold Niebuhr and the Social Gospel makes sense, Baldwin argues, only against his visceral and abiding identification with black culture and the black Christian tradition. Working directly with the trove of King's sermons, speeches, and unpublished papers, Baldwin has reconstructed the pain and joy, the defeat and triumph King experienced in his formative family relationships, in the black church, in his childhood and education, in his marriage and children, in segregated black Atlanta, and in his leadership of America's civil rights movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Baldwin's through research and engaging writing finally give us what King had but Scholars have missed: the sense of place that grounded his vision of the \"beloved community.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major contribution to African-American religious scholarship and clearly the most significant analysis of King's cultural roots yet available in print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 8.5 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 1991\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42589570760800,"sku":"9780800624576","price":60.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/VVI0dW1HN0JnY3FFbnFLRWpsUVQ4dz09.webp?v=1771318483","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/there-is-a-balm-in-gilead-the-cultural-roots-of-martin-luther-king-jr-paperback-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}