Name: "My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole": Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scripture (en Inglés)
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Author: Owens, Robin L.
ISBN: 9781647122720

portada "My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole": Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scripture (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Robin L. Owens

Editorial

Georgetown University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781647122720

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Afroamericanos
El gobierno central
Historia social y cultural
Religión y política

"My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole": Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scripture (en Inglés)

Robin L. Owens (Autor) · Georgetown University Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro ""My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole": Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scripture (en Inglés)"

How Barbara Jordan used sacred and secular scriptures in her social activismUS Congresswoman Barbara Jordan is well-known as an interpreter and defender of the Constitution, particularly through her landmark speech during Richard Nixon's 1974 impeachment hearings. However, before she developed faith in the Constitution, Jordan had faith in Christianity. In "My Faith in the Constitution is Whole" Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scripture, Robin L. Owens shows how Jordan turned her religious faith and her faith in the Constitution into a powerful civil religious expression of her social activism. Owens begins by examining the lives and work of the nineteenth-century Black female orator-activists Maria W. Stewart and Anna Julia Cooper. Stewart and Cooper fought for emancipation and women's rights by "scripturalizing," or using religious scriptures to engage in political debate. Owens then demonstrates how Jordan built upon this tradition by treating the Constitution as an American "scripture" to advocate for racial justice and gender equality. Case studies of key speeches throughout Jordan's career show how she quoted the Constitution and other founding documents as sacred texts, used them as sociolinguistic resources, and employed a discursive rhetorical strategy of indirection known as "signifying on scriptures." Jordan's particular use of the Constitution-deeply connected with her background and religious, racial, and gender identity-represents the agency and power reflected in her speeches. Jordan's strategies also illustrate a broader phenomenon of scripturalization outside of institutional religion and its rhetorical and interpretive possibilities.